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Apple Music’s year-end Replay is here to expose your listening habits
Apple Music’s full year-end Replay experience has arrived. Although elements of the personalized recap are available year-round, the company spruces up its web interface this time of year for a sleeker presentation as you reflect on your 2023 listening habits.
Shazam's new feature makes it easy to find and buy tickets for nearby concerts
The service's new concert discovery feature is now live on Android and iOS.
Algoriddim's djay iOS app uses Shazam to recognize and sync with live music
Algoriddim is integrating Shazam into its latest iOS djay app with the release of iOS 15.
Apple Music will use Shazam's tech to ensure proper royalties for DJ mixes
Apple says it has built a tool based on Shazam's technology that can identify all rights holders in a DJ mix and properly compensate them all.
Apple says Shazam identifies over a billion songs per month
Apple's music discovery service Shazam has surpassed 1 billion song IDs per month.
Shazam brings song recognition to the web alongside new design on iOS
The browser tool is in beta and available only on macOS and Chrome OS.
Apple's latest iOS 14.2 beta adds a built-in control for Shazam
Apple's testing a new Control Center toggle for Shazam in iOS 14.
Apple Music adds a Shazam-powered playlist to highlight new artists
Until now, Apple hasn't visibly integrated Shazam much into its other services since buying the music discovery service last year. As of today, though, a Shazam-powered chart highlighting new artists will be available to stream on Apple Music.
Shazam can now ID tracks played through your headphones
Apple's music ID app Shazam has always been a handy tool to have on your phone, but it has one small inconvenience - it can only identify music which is either played through your device's internal speakers or picked up by its microphone.
You can now post your Shazam finds to Instagram Stories
Instagram's obsession with music is expanding to Shazam: The song-identifying app now works with Instagram Stories. Starting today, you'll be able to pull up Shazam, ID a song, and immediately post it to your Instagram Story.
Apple buys a digital talent scout for music
Apple wants to know what the next big thing is before you do, which is why it's purchased Asaii. The startup is a digital talent scout that's designed to find the Beyoncés of tomorrow before anyone else. According to Axios, Apple spent less than $100 million to snap up the firm, which calls itself an "automated A&R and music analytics platform."
Apple's purchase of Shazam is $400 million well spent
At the tail-end of 2017, Apple announced that it was buying music discovery service Shazam for $400 million. Now that the deal has completed, the company has revealed that the platform will soon go ad-free. Even without the revenue that advertisements bring, it's likely that the purchase price will be a bargain if Apple can use Shazam to become king of streaming.
Apple has completed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam
Back in December of 2017, Apple announced it would purchase the music discovery service Shazam. Now, that acquisition is complete, and it means that the Shazam app experience will soon be ad-free for all users.
European Commission approves Apple’s purchase of Shazam
After launching an investigation into Apple's proposed acquisition of Shazam in April, the European Commission has cleared the deal. The EC looked into whether data obtained in the purchase would allow Apple to target its competitors' music streaming customers and if rivals, like Spotify, would be harmed if Apple chose to stop referring customers to them through Shazam. "After thoroughly analysing Shazam's user and music data, we found that their acquisition by Apple would not reduce competition in the digital music streaming market," Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
Europe is reportedly ready to clear Apple’s purchase of Shazam
In April, the European Commission (EC) announced that it was launching an in-depth investigation into Apple's proposed purchase of Shazam -- a deal that was announced last December. Now, according to Reuters, two people familiar with the matter say European antitrust regulators will approve the acquisition without requiring any concessions. The investigation explored whether the purchase of Shazam would give Apple access to data that could let it target and draw in customers of other streaming services, like Spotify. It also looked into whether other services would be harmed if Shazam stopped referring users to them once Apple took the reins.
EU launches anti-trust investigation into Apple’s purchase of Shazam
Late last year, Apple announced that it would be acquiring Shazam. Due to the size of the deal, Apple didn't have to get clearance from the European Commission (EC) itself, as it would have had to do if the proposed acquisition had been larger. But it did have to seek clearance from Austria. However, in February, the EC announced that upon request from Austria and six other European countries, it would, in fact, be assessing the deal and today the commission said that it's launching an in-depth investigation into the acquisition.
Apple's Shazam acquisition faces scrutiny from European Commission
While Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks got good news from the European Commission today, Apple and Shazam weren't so lucky. In December, Apple confirmed that it purchased Shazam for an undisclosed amount believed to be in the range of $400 million. But today the European Commission said that upon request by a number of European nations, it would be assessing the deal. The proposed acquisition wasn't large enough to require evaluation by the EC directly, but Austrian laws required the companies to seek regulatory clearance there. A European Union provision allows EU countries to ask the EC to look at proposed mergers, and Austria did just that. Iceland, Italy, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden then signed onto that request.
Some mobile games are listening to what children watch
Just in time for the new season of Black Mirror, another report of a company using smartphones to listen in on users has surfaced. The New York Times reported this week that a number of apps are using software produced by a startup called Alphonso and it uses a smartphone's microphone to listen for particular audio signals in TV shows, advertisements and movies. In many cases, Alphonso then has Shazam identify what those audio snippets are and all of the collected data can then be sold to advertisers who can use it to better target their ads.
Deezer's 'SongCatcher' borrows Shazam's song ID trick
As Tidal has showed us lately, streaming is a tough business, but underdog French company Deezer is trying to keep up with its giant rivals Spotify and Apple Music. The site is launching a new feature called SongCatcher that can identify any song, much like Apple's new acquisition, Shazam. It works in much the same way; you launch the app, and it will identify any music playing from its 44 million song database. Once it's found the tune, you can then add it to your favorites or playlist and play all the recognized tunes directly from SoundCatcher.
Apple confirms it's buying music recognition app Shazam
Well, that was fast. Following reports on Friday that Apple was planning to buy music recognition app Shazam, CNBC reports that Cupertino has confirmed the purchase. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but TechCrunch estimates the agreement to be worth around $400 million. The site was also the first to report news of the acquisition Friday afternoon.
