Like (presumably) everyone, I’ve had Shazam on my iPhone for years and it’s occasionally identified some background music that’s annoying me with “… oh, who is that, I’m sure I’ve heard it before …”; I look at the result, am always impressed / amazed how it did it so quickly and even with all the other noise, and that’s about it. A few times I’ve followed through and purchased the track, but mostly it’s enough to know the name.
Today, reading this article about Shazam made me wonder if my App has a history list – and of course it does. Like the author, going back only to 2012, which must be when Shazam made some major tracking change to their App.
Looking at the list, I couldn’t see any way to do more with it – I don’t have a Spotify account like the author; but I wondered if a Shazam website might have similar data.
Going to www.shazam.com, the login link prompted a Facebook connection – I tried that, ensuring first that “can’t post” was selected. But still no data about “me”.
Of course, my Shazam App isn’t logged in via Facebook, so I tried that next. And presto, now the website had a list of all the tracks, along with a download button.
So here, in all it’s obscure glory, is the list of music that I had Shazam identify for me, over the last 2-1/2 years. The original list even has Google Map links for some tracks, so I know where as well as when I heard the music. Amazing!
M&I / GBMINI 