Listens to music and matches it using Shazam's databases of digital music fingerprints.
iOS and Android apps.
I use the Desktop app on Mac a lot to shazam songs from TV shows as documented in the Audio page section:
Shazam Songs While Using Headphones on Mac
Unfortunately the desktop app is just a thin wrapper to the online service and doesn't have the store and try later unfortunately capability of the mobile app, but you can't use your phone to Shazam songs while you're watching something in headphones.
If the network connectivity is down the desktop Shazam app will just return a generic error that it couldn't determine the track instead of properly notifying you that it wasn't able to contact the upstream Shazam servers to check the database.
This is an area that should have been improved in the desktop app.
To mitigate this a little you should use apps like Stats and Pingr as documented on the Mac page to keep network monitoring in your status bar to know when it's a real failure to determine the song fingerprint vs just a network failure.
Install on macOS from the App Store:
open https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shazam-identify-songs/id897118787or install on the command line using Mas:
mas search Shazam 897118787 Shazam: Identify Songs (2.11)
<more irrelevant results>
mas install 897118787I'm not sure why you'd want to bloat your browser with this extension instead of just using the separate desktop app.
The Shazam desktop app uses Apple's "Core Data" object persistence framework that usually stores data in SQLite using a 2001-based UTC timestamp and auto-generated schemas.
I have written the following scripts to use this.
From DevOps-Bash-tools under the applescript/ directory:
Gets the list of tracks (newest first) from the SQLite DB on the command line for piping to other commands:
shazam_app_dump_tracks.shYou can pass it a limited number of tracks to return.
You can also pass it an argument to only return today / yesterday / week or a specific YYYY-MM-DD date.
In that case it returns the tracks in the order they were shazam'd first (for building a playlist of the tracks in the order they appear in the episode).
Deletes a given track from the Shazam app directly in is SQLite DB:
shazam_app_delete_track.sh "<artist>" "<track>"If there are multiple instances of that song, it deletes all of them which is useful to automatically get rid of duplicates because sometimes we shazam more than once to be sure we have the right track.
Searches for a track in the local Spotify desktop app, waits for a command line enter prompt before continuing (to allow you to add the song to a playlist), and then deletes the track from the Shazam SQLite DB.
Utilizes my above two list and delete shazam scripts along with my
applescript/spotify_app_search.sh script to
automate searching in the Spotify desktop app.
shazam_search_spotify_then_delete_track.shThis is a workaround to the removal of Spotify integration by Apple as the competitor to their own Apple Music.
I have also written many more Spotify scripts available in the same repo under spotify/ including Spotify track search
and playlist addition, but I want to see the results and control them personally and then decide which list of playlists
to add each song to.