Shazam Database Grows to 8 Million Songs
9:50 pm, December 4th, 2008, Lonnie Lazar
UPDATE: This article has been corrected to reflect Shazam’s compatibility with iPhone only and not iPod Touch, as originally indicated. We regret any confusion our error may have caused.
I’ve been wanting to write about Shazam, the music discovery software app for iPhone, for a while now, but since it’s been around for a good while and is one of the most popular downloads on the AppStore, it didn’t seem there was any news there.
Shazam’s developers announced they have extended its database to include additional North American, Asian and European content, however, and Shazam now offers the facility to recognize songs in a database that has grown to include 8 million different songs.
“This increase in our database cements Shazam’s position as the leading mobile music discovery service in the world,” says Will Mills, Shazam’s Head of Music, and adds the app’s unique user experience “has made Shazam the perfect partner for mobile phone operators and handset manufacturers across the world.”
In September the company announced that more than 20 million customers had used Shazam to identify over 100 million tracks so far, numbers that are likely to continue growing along with the size of the app’s database.
Via Distorted Loop
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in News, Software, iPhone, iPod Touch | Comment on this article
I hope everybody humming these tunes into their phones have been paying royalties on all that music….
dave, on December 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
is just me but this app is only for iphones ? can’t load it on itouch and it clearly says so in the apps page on itune…
tind, on December 5th, 2008 at 11:23 am
tind, it only works on the iPhone because you need a microphone to pick up the music. The iPod touch does not have a microphone built-in, so the app simply can’t work.
austin, on December 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am