The latest version of Facebook for iOS and Android automatically recognizes the song you’re listening to or TV show you’re watching and adds it to your status. The Shazam-like feature is called “audio recognition,” and starts listening as soon as you start typing a new status.
I wonder what this will do to Shazam. Facebook has a lot of users that will use the new feature by default.
Maybe that’s the all reason of why they’re joining forces with Apple, and essentially turning their app into a built-in feature for future iOS releases?
I think it will still hold a place for those looking to tag/query an unknown song rather than share that you are listening to it. I’d be more concerned if it was in the OS – the sharing (what you are currently playing) feature should have been in iTunes/music app as soon as FB/twitter implementation was added to iOS. Day One.
Pretty soon your newsfeed will say “Posted from the upstairs john.”
Google Now replaced Shazam for me a long time ago.
Does Siri not have song recognition? If not, when it does you can consider Shazam toast; unless Siri uses Shazam.
All I can think of is “Currently Watching The Best of Ron Jeremy.” Not sure that’s a good feature…