Shazam discontinues support for Windows Phone

[rmeigs]

https://support.shazam.com/entries/29988213-Limited-Support-Windows-BB-and-Symbian-versions
I little bit of a blow for Windows Phone, they don't even advertise the app being available on Windows Phone on their site, but I hear SoundHound will be releasing an update some time in the future...

Not really. Cortana does a super job.

 

[unstoppablekem]

I just use Cortana, and before that, Bing would do that for me.

 

[BobLobIaw]

I've always used Soundhound with good success.

 

[Bizarro_Prime]

I haven't bothered with Shazam since I got my 920. The inbuilt function works perfectly well enough for me.

 

[Chregu]

Shazam was good for a while years ago, then they updated it back on WP7 what made it unusable without buying the full version for an unreasonable amount of money. I haven't bothered since and use SoundHound which does the job nicely.

 

[jamie johnston]

where are you from? I am in Belgium and have my region set to Belgium, I have music recognition. just bring up the bing search page and it is there.

 

[Ezhik]

in WP8 you had to change your regi?n to US to get a lot of features on Bing, including music recognition.

For me music recognition still wouldn't work.

 

[fdalbor]

As a user of WP8 phones and ANdroid tablets I can say this is no big deal (actually no deal) at all. The program never got much support ever and I guit using it along time ago. In fact I was not aware they were still in business.

 

[Jonathanmr7]

where are you from? I am in Belgium and have my region set to Belgium, I have music recognition. just bring up the bing search page and it is there.

Im from Costa Rica and nothing ;cc

 

[ven07]

Soundhound has been its main competitor here, and on other platforms.
Worth noting Cortana/Bing has a similar feature, but I don't have experience with that.

True, but the Cortana option isn't available for everybody.. Even before 8.1 some had reported that they did not have this option when hitting the search button

 

[Moiz Mian]

Just use Bing Music if you have WP 7.5/8 or Cortana if you have 8.1. A lot faster than shazam or any other apps

 

[ShreyansShah]

Just use Bing Music if you have WP 7.5/8 or Cortana if you have 8.1. A lot faster than shazam or any other apps

while we all are worrying and discussing about Shazam, shazam app is still available in the store. what they have done is stopped updating it. maybe they are not getting a good revenue out of it. after all, it's all about money.

the options gave by moiz and others above such as bing music, musixmatch, cortana and others, i never knew and used. i am using shazam since very very long.
i am gonna try other options now, still shazam is there to use.

 

[Coreldan]

I've rarely used Shazam anymore after they brought the Bing music recognition stuff to my region.

 

[realwarder]

The issue with these sorts of things is app brand recognition.

The built in support works great - I don't even have Shazam - but iOS users likely think this as a key app... until iOS builds support in, which there was a rumor they were.

 

[alphablue597]

If your Cortana music id doesn't work(or can't see the icon), you must change your xbox music region to US. Set your IE preferences to desktop mode(on your phone), open Xbox music app, go to settings and then Xbox music account. There you can find something like billing info, or account settings(I can't remember right now), and change your region to US.

 

[anon(6038817)]

Even if there are good alternatives, Shazam is a recognizable app across platforms. That they are ignoring WP is not a good thing for WP.

Posted from my BlackBerry Z30 via Tapatalk

 

[z33dev33l]

Soundhound is fairly recognizable and much better

 

[anon(5969054)]

Cortona sucks for this. It does not keep a history of songs it has recognized. Without that it is useless to me.

 

[quantum tao]

Cortona sucks for this. It does not keep a history of songs it has recognized. Without that it is useless to me.

Yes she does

 

[hs k]

Heck, I'm not even getting the music icon