Shazam.com - Identify Songs With Your Cell Phone

Cell phone users who want to discover new music on the fly can always resort to a service like Shazam. In principle, Shazam will let you identify music tracks and store them on your mobile device, as well as sharing them with the friends and contacts that make up your social networks.

Shazam’s main selling point is the abovementioned ability to identify music tracks and tell you the name of that particular composition along with artist information. A system like this has a true potential as regards the way you discover new music. Personally, I like to listen to radio stations in the small hours, and some stations simply play tracks without interruption and without giving song names and related information away. Whenever I listen to something I like, what I do is write down part of the chorus and the opening lines and then look the song up using that data via Google. And, you know, a service like Shazam sure beats that.

The site also includes information that is geared towards those who would like to work with this British company under the “Shazam for Partners and Carriers” heading. News and featured reviews can likewise be found online. Lastly, iD charts can be readily accessed from the site in order to find what’s hot nowadays.

“Back in 2002, Shazam launched a unique technology, enabling music lovers to identify tunes anywhere - using just their mobile phone. Now six years on, Shazam has been used by more than 20 million people in over 60 countries deployed by leading industry handset manufacturers and more than 75 carriers.”

It can revolutionize the way people listen to music.

What features are planned for future incarnations of Shazam?