Shazam: What is this application for?

In the modern world there are many miracles. People in recent years have become so accustomed to unusual things that they have stopped paying attention to them. What just recently could be called nothing but magic, fantasy and the embodiment of magic, today is already perceived as a typical attribute of everyday life. One of such magical wonders is the Shazam application. What it is? This is what will be discussed.

Purpose of the program

Still some a couple of years ago to any video on the web with almost one hundred percent probability left comments with a request to suggest what kind of music is inserted into the video. Yes, yes, it was so. But nowadays, if you have a smartphone with Shazam installed in your pocket, it's much quicker and easier to find your favorite song yourself.

For example, a person is sitting in a cafe: suddenly a melody has sounded, which he tried to find for a long time, but the name can not remember. Or he heard in his favorite movie soundtrack, which you want to listen to, but find it does not come out. For every such situation, Shazam is great. What is this application?

Main screen of the program

Opening the application for the first time, the user sees in the middle of the main screen a large button, designed to trigger music recognition. Accordingly, to learn the melody, you need to press this button. If the situation is quiet enough, then no special problems with the definition of music, as a rule, does not arise. This is when considering that the song is already contained in the database of the program Shazam. What does it mean? There are countless number of melodies in the world. It is impossible to add all of them to the database instantly. This process is gradual.

If the room is very noisy or the music plays in the transport, where there are always a lot of extraneous sounds, recognition of the melody does not always happen with success. In the upper right corner there is a radio button to automatically determine the name of the song. When you turn it on, the application will continue to recognize the music for four hours. This will happen even when the user is logged out of the program.

Settings

The left corner contains the gear icon. This is the application settings. In this menu, you can go to your Facebook user account, share tags with your friends, disable or enable notifications, read legal information about the terms of use of the program, privacy. Also, through the settings menu, the user can get the help he needs by writing to the Shazam support team. What can this give? Experts will help to solve any technical problems and answer questions related to the functioning of the application. Here you can purchase the Encore-version of the program.

The lower part of the screen

There are five menu icons below: "News", "Tags", "Opening", "Pulse" and "Start of recognition". The menu with news is necessary for the user to be able to learn about the appearance of new clips, updates. Here you can watch artists and television shows, view the messages of your friends.

In the "Tag" are lists with recognized music. In total there are two lists: "My tags" and "Auto". In the first, only those melodies that the user found themselves are located. The second one lists the tracks recognized in the automatic mode of operation. If there is a desire to purchase several songs at the same time, there is a button with the appropriate name - "To buy."

Clicking on each of the tags, the user can read the biography of the artist, see his discography, clips, list of artists that are similar to the current one, review of the album, information about future concerts, as well as the name of the record, the genre of the composition and the sound recording studio. Any tag can be shared on social networks using both a messenger program and e-mail. If the melody is recognized, you can listen to the fragments and buy it in one of the digital stores.

The "Opening" tab allows you to see on the map where and which melody has been recognized recently. It is for this purpose that the application uses the geolocation function. Well, the tab called "Pulse" shows in real time the most top music.

How to get the application?

Download the program for the Android platform can everyone, since it is completely free. There are three versions for "apple" devices. In free advertising is contained. The Encore version is complete. It is without advertising, but it is paid. The third version is Red. It was created to transfer money to charity. Shazam for Windows Phone is also available for download at the company store. Although users of this OS and less, but the developers have taken care of them.

In addition, it should be said that there is no version of Shazam for the computer. The only option is to install an Android emulator for the PC. Today, these programs are quite functional and support most of the mobile applications, because they repeat the architecture of smartphones and tablets.