Shazam’s mobile app lets you figure out what song is playing on the radio, TV, or department store intercom by simply tapping a button on your phone and letting it listen for a few bars. Now Shazam is taking things to a whole new level by showing you lyrics as well. When you tag a song using Shazam Encore for iOS, you can now press… Read more »

Music identification and discovery service Shazam has announced that it’s now offering unlimited tagging with its Android app. Shazam lets you identify any song playing a radio, television, or any other real-world setting by holding your phone’s mic up to the music source. Up until now users could identify up to 5 songs a month for free, but if you wanted to do more than… Read more »

One of the coolest music discovery app for iPhone has just been updated to version 4.0 with several new features including Facebook integration.  The latest version of Shazam now lets you see a feed of song that your Facebook friends have recently tagged. This is done through the new option “Shazam Friends.” Shazam lets you identify songs playing on the radio, on TV, or anywhere… Read more »

SoundHound’s mobile apps let you identify music with your phone. Hear a song on the radio and want to know who sings it? Just fire up the SoundHound app, hold your phone up to the music, and within a few seconds, the app should have an ID for you. It’s pretty awesome, especially for a free app. The only problem is that the free version… Read more »

There are already a number of apps that let you identify a song simply by holding up your phone’s microphone to the audio source. SoundHound and Shazam are probably the biggest names in this relatively new music discovery business. But once you identify the song, then what happens? Sure, you could shell out some cash to buy that song that was playing during last night’s… Read more »

Shazam is a service for mobile phones that lets you identify songs by playing them into your phone’s microphone. It’s available for iOS, Android, and other platforms. The iPhone version of Shazam is available as either a free, limited download or a premium full version called Shazam Encore which sells for $4.99. And starting today, Android users have the same two versions to choose from…. Read more »

SoundHound is a new app for Android that lets you identify music by holding your phone’s microphone up to a song that’s playing. Hear a song on the radio and want to know who the performer is? Just pull out your phone and fire up SoundHound. If the concept sounds familiar, that’s because Shazam offers a similar service for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Symbian phones…. Read more »