Shazam Encore - Listen and learn

In recent years we have become so accustomed to miracles that for a string of everyday life we ​​do not pay attention to them anyone. But many achieving IT industry in recent years look like pure magic. One of these wonders is a mobile music recognition service Shazam. Not so long ago appeared in the AppStore is a paid version of the popular program, its name - Shazam Encore.

Many of us have probably wondered, "How does it work?", Some even guess. In the cafe, outdoors, day or night, the result will not take long, a few seconds, and another melody exposed. Perhaps we think longer before you turn on Shazam, and whether it is worth a fuss. How much do you need that time to make a decision, 10-15 seconds, maybe a little more, and then you grab for your iPhone and launch Shazam. 10 seconds and you already know with an album of artist will spend the weekend. So what happens during those 10 seconds.

If you describe the work of the service without going into details it can be divided into several parts: The first - a "tagging" and Identification of fragments frequency power (intensity) and time on the basis of the data generated hash frequencies, it is lyrics cast. In the second stage Shazam data is sent to the server where the user received from the cast piece matched to the music catalog print a hash-table is created Shazam. If the directory contains the same information, "tied" the data is sent to the user. This description is highly simplified, but still gives some idea of ​​how the service works.

Around the world, Shazam is used by about 35 million. people monthly catalog supplemented by a quarter million tracks, the number of downloads for the iPhone for a long time already exceeded 10 million. You feel the scale, right? And note holder for iPhone for free. The user may tempt 5-dollar Shazam Encore:

- it has no restrictions on the number of "recognitions".

- provides the ability to publish your tags in Twitter, add the mini-feed to your page on Facebook for your friends. Send postcards to friends Email to a title and cover songs found.

- store the history of your tags, add photos, where and how the song was discovered.

- learn more about the music: read revoke and reviews of songs and albums, read the biography of the artist, to get the text of the song and watch the video from YouTube.

- know what is popular at the moment, this will help Shazam-chart, formed by millions users (depending on which "recognize" users), get advice on already "Recognizes" the tracks.

- search music by artist, album or song among 8 million. compositions.

- special mode for use in the car, turn on and watch that plays on the radio.
- collect tags that would identify them later, when the opportunity arose.
- the paid version specifies the name of the tracks faster.

Applet impression left the most pleasant, but also some questionable moments are present. At the moment, Shazam best solution for working with local artists material. Despite the fact that with the addition of many interface functions become more saturated, simple actions with a single click anywhere did not disappear, no matter what you did in the Shazam Encore, will always be ready for action fragment record button in the upper right corner. The abundance of features is impressive I must say, there probably just not enough service in the likeness of Grooveshark for on-line listening to the tracks.

Now descend from heaven to earth: the app is not available in the AppStore Russia, which of course is not happy - will have to find alternative ways of buying. And the price tag might be a bit more modest, still $ 4.99. One of the main claims of the buyers in the AppStore is the presence of advertising in the paid application.

Performance and stability issues of the program did not call, the app is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iOS 3.0.

• shazam Encore in the AppStore.
• Shazam (Free) in the AppStore.