If I ever had to make one of those lists N the basic application on your smartphone, Shazam would no doubt find himself in the same. I’ve lost count of the years I’ve used it and the number of devices I’ve done it on, but there were only a few occasions when it wasn’t able to recognize the song I wanted it to identify. moment, whether it was playing on radio or television, as background music in some public space, etc.

As we remember when it was 20 years old, it was not app-based in its beginnings (smartphones were still a few years away), but in phone calls (from mobile yes) and text messages. Of course, this explains that with the advent of smartphones, its response was so fast that it was one of those available in the iOS App Store from the first day of the store’s existence, and that it did not take long to wait. when switching to other platforms.

Let’s remember that As of 2018, Shazam is owned by Apple but despite that, while one might think that those from Cupertino would use this circumstance to offer better services on iOS than on Android, the truth is that more than once we have seen the opposite, i.e. features that have come to market previously. Google operating system than Apple. The most recent example of this was seen last summer, when the feature to identify content played on mobile made its way to iOS after being present on Android for some time.

On this occasion, the novelty will arrive simultaneously on Android and iOS, and that’s it Shazam is now able to identify music when we use headphones. So far this has not been possible, so it was necessary to disconnect them and then proceed to identification. And the problem, of course, is that if the playback we want to identify is ephemeral, it’s possible that it ended before we finished this operation, so we’d like to know what we were listening to.

With this new ability Shazam’s response speed increases exponentially, addressing the complaint I mentioned earlier that I have suffered from on occasion (something that has also happened to me when I have my cell phone connected to my car’s hands-free system). Definitely a big step forward, confirming what I suggested at the beginning, that Shazam should be on everyone’s must-have apps list.

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