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Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone (theverge.com)
Apple has successfully completed its $400 million acquisition of Shazam, and the company announced it will be removing all ads from the app "soon." The Verge reports: The acquisition was temporarily held up because of an investigation by the European Union, which scrutinized the deal over potential antitrust concerns. But regulators gave it the thumbs up earlier this month. Shazam has been downloaded over 1 billion times around the world and is used over 20 million times every day, according to Apple's press release. The app has been around since the beginnings of the App Store and was one of the coolest early demos of what a mobile app could do. You'd hold up your phone, let it listen to a song playing nearby for a few seconds, and the track and artist information would just pop up on screen like magic. All these years later, it's now a feature that's available on many platforms and one we take for granted.
I might be getting old, but I find googling on four words from a lyric followed by the word 'lyric' produces the same results.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
I used SoundHound. It worked.
I then removed it to save space on the phone, wanted to use something again and found Shazam and it didn't work.
I then checked for other solutions and found SoundHound again and it worked.
Free and no ads is good but ... functionality matter.
Try with "du dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dudu du dutt .." from https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and see for yourself!
You're adorable. Are you toilet trained yet?
I remember having a crush on MLR when I was too young to understand what I was feeling. All I knew was that leotard really did it for me....it being whatever a leotard could do for a 5 year old. Probably just made me tingly.
Now, she's 50, and wasn't an olympian because of her looks. I say she don't look that bad all things considered.
A.C. Out!
(Mistyped my challened "complied" as "compiled". Time for a break.)
Only if you can understand the lyrics.
Case in point: If a song is in a foreign language, typing the closest mondegreen might not do you much good. "In a sauna here", "Shot Osama here", and "Broken condom style" don't turn up "Gangnam Style" by Psy. (Or at least they didn't before the parodies arrived.)
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
Android tablets are for morons, you made your choice.
Simple, just buy an apply product. /s Has their software ever played nicely outside the ecosystem?
Let's have the URL, to where I get this as a trustworthy application for Windows, where I can drag and drop a .flac recording to do the same "magic", because I've countless times needed this "feature we take for granted" and not been able to do it.
all ready uninstalled it.
apple isnt stealing any of my data.
Shamwow? Did apple buy a towel company?
I wonder if they'll keep supporting Android and whether the android version will be ad-free. Or if they'll remove Spotify integration from Shazam. I don't see this as a "feel good... oh that's great" story for a lot of Shazam's user base. I think this is only good news for the likes of SoundHound and others who will likely see a spike in adoptions as Shazam gets Applefied...
https://beebom.com/shazam-alte...
Shazam uninstalled do not trust Apple
Not a word that i've ever considered using when referring to Apple. I cant imagine why ...
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Shazam was already ad free using a proper phone (rooted android) with a system wide ad blocker installed. Yay now apple can try to shove apple music down everyone's throats, thats exactly how they will make it ad free and probably remove all the integration with 3rd party services like spotify where one could auto build playlists based on their tags.
No, I mean the lyrics are in English and I'm a native English speaker. I just can't always understand what the hell they are saying.
You're not the only one. There are countless songs where I have no idea what the hell they are saying without a transcript. A lot of singers don't enunciate very clearly and since the words are basically poetry they don't tend to have an easy to follow thread or context to figure out what is being said. Now I can still enjoy a piece of music even if I don't understand the lyrics but it is frustrating all the same sometimes. I'm always impressed by people who can follow the lyrics to songs that I find to be incomprehensible gibberish.
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
It benefits Apple because you'll want it so much you'll buy an ipad.
That's their theory anyway ...
Hotdog or no hotdog, understand? It's science.
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I can hear Gomer Pyle getting this news now: "Well, Shazam!"
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat".
Well, Android tablets don't do a lot of things apparently, one of them play MP4s - so why do you blame that on Apple?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Last I checked, MP4 files using AVC+AAC worked on Android. Which codecs are used in the MP4 files that fail to play on Android?
Last I checked, MP4 files using AVC+AAC worked on Android. Which codecs are used in the MP4 files that fail to play on Android?
Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine - just in case hides inconvenient facts for you. And then ask Google why it doesn't work - I sure as hell don't. Nobody outside Google seems to know. And yet many people have noticed, not just people who want to use Apple Music.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine
My brief DuckDuckGo session didn't turn up any difference between codec support on Android phones and codec support on Android tablets. In particular, the media formats page doesn't list any such differences: all devices must decode HE-AAC and AVC (H.264) main profile, and all devices must encode AAC-LC and AVC baseline profile. What query did you use that turned up relevant results?
The Apple Music app's page on Google Play doesn't list any permissions specifically related to cellular voice capability. So my speculation is that Apple Music for Android is locked by screen size. Another company (Microsoft) has also admitted to locking its own app by screen size, requiring an Office 365 subscription to use Microsoft Office on tablets with screens larger than a certain size.
Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine
My brief DuckDuckGo session didn't turn up any difference between codec support on Android phones and codec support on Android tablets
So you are saying this is a general problem of Android devices. Thanks for the confirmation that Android sucks.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+don't+android+tablets+play+mp4
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.