Comments on: Quick App: Shazam Encore

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:02:37 +0000

Free Shazam has now just started restricting to 5 tags per month. Thanks, and thanks for telling me in advance rather than when I'm desperate to tag a tune but can't!!!

I went on a quest to find an alternative free app, but can't. But have found 'SoundHound' from Melodis. It is the same price as Shazam encore, but you can sing and hum into it, so I'm giving that a try for my £2.99.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:15:40 +0000

Yeah I guess it might b with it but y limit the old shazam to 5 dongs a month !!! And I’ve had that app forever and now if I want to be able to use it I have to pay 5 dollars or wait untill next month

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:15:22 +0000

I was happy with my free shazam app now it doesn’t work andvthe update never said it wouldn’t work unless I paid. Rubbish not paying for something I never asked for, want the old one back

By: dagwolf

dagwolf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:53 +0000

Oops. Just read that if you already had the free version you keep your unlimited tags. So I put it back on and ran half a dozen to be sure.

Is a little buggy, though. The first time it ran the program exited after analyzing, then when restarted it showed the tagged song, then on the third song it exited after about half a minute after the tag. Didn't lose it though, so it's workable.

I'll keep updating as long as it leaves me my unlimited tags.

By: Bear

Bear — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:25 +0000

Yeah, Midomi looks to cost $4.99 to me as well!

By: dagwolf

dagwolf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:23 +0000

Good thing I kept the old one. Downgraded back to it!

By: Mephisto

Mephisto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:43:32 +0000

Midomi costs £2.99 according to my iTunes Store!

By: redbeard

redbeard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:51:30 +0000

Correct, there was an update to Shazam today, now when I try to tag a song it says I’ve reached my monthly limit of 5, what BS.

Shazam was one of my favorite apps, everybody loved it, they just put themselves out of business, Midomi is better, free, and you can tag an unlimited amount of songs.

Greedy ********

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:26:01 +0000

I read this morning that the free version Of shazam will be limited to 5 tags a month.

I switched to Midomi and recommend it over shazam. It tags a lot more obscure songs.

Before buying shazam do a little research first.

By: Édouard Lavery-Plante

Édouard Lavery-Plante — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:45:50 +0000

DO NOT BUY. If you look at the screenshots on the appstore, you can clearly see that the app uses google ads in almost all views!!! Do you really want to pay 4.99 for an AD SUPPORTED APP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!