How Can I Use Shazam to Identify a Song?

Shazam is a popular music recognition application that leads you out when you stumble upon a song but don't know the title. It utilizes audio fingerprinting technology to find out the music playing on your devices or in videos with an accurate result.

Shazam offers several intuitive ways to identify a song, from Auto Shazam to through headphones. Varying from devices, you can use different methods to Shazam a song.

How to Shazam a Song Playing on iPhone, iPad and Android?

Way 1. Quickly identify music playing on your mobile device.

Shazam natively identifies local songs and streaming music playing in other apps, such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, radio apps, etc., at your fingertips.

When the music is playing, open Shazam on your device and tap the Shazam button. In seconds, the title and artist of the identified song will be shown to you.

Way 2. Set up Auto Shazam to identify songs.

Auto Shazam makes it easy to find a song in a video, TV show, movie or music playing around you. It can automatically identify music playing in the background even though your device is locked.

• To turn on Auto Shazam, touch and hold the Shazam button in the app.
• Or, touch and hold the Shazam app icon on your home screen and then tap Auto Shazam.
• On iPhone or iPad, the identified songs are saved to My Music and ground by date in Shazam.
• On Android, they are saved to the Library and grounded by date in Shazam.

Way 3. Shazam a song through headphones.

Shazam introduces the feature to identify music while wearing headphones.

On iPhone/iPad:

• Go to Settings > Control Center > Tap + next to Music Recognition to add Shazam to Control Center.
• Play a song or video in any app. Tap the Shazam icon in Control Center.
• Seconds later, you can get the title and artist of the song on your screen.
• In addition, you can top and hold the Shazam icon to check out the music recognition history.

On Android:

• Go to the Library in Shazam app > tap the gear icon > enable Shazam from Pop-Up and Shazam from notification bar.
• Play a song or video. Then, Swipe down from the top of the device screen. Select Tap to Shazam in notifications.
• When you play music in another app, the Pop-Up Shazam button floats on the right edge of the screen. Tap the button to identify music.

How to Shazam a Song on PC and Mac?

Shazam develops a Chrome extension to identify music from your browser in seconds.

1. Add the Shazam extension to Chrome.
2. Play a song or video in Chrome.
3. Click the Extensions icon and select Shazam.
4. Seconds later, the information of the song is shown.

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