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# Shazam Launches New Interface Plus Offline Mode
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/shazam-lauches-new-interface-plus-offline-mode/
- Published: 2012-12-14T09:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-14T09:01:00.000Z
- Description: By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One reason people love Music ID apps is their immediacy: You hold your phone up in the air, tag a song, and then you. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/12/shazam-lauches-new-interface-plus-offline-mode.html]
- Author: admin
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, Music Tech, offline mode, Shazam, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

[![Shazam_offline-294x238](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017ee63125c6970d-150wi "Shazam_offline-294x238")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017ee63125c6970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

By Eliot Van Buskirk of [Evolver.fm](http://evolver.fm/?ref=hypebot.com).

One reason people love [Music ID apps](http://evolver.fm/appdb/category/music-id/?ref=hypebot.com) is their immediacy: You hold your phone up in the air, tag a song, and then you know, more or less immediately, what that song is. This is one of the most magical things our modern phones can do — but even the old, dumb phones from ten years ago could do it, by essentially leaving Shazam a voicemail and getting a text message in return.

Today, audio fingerprinting usage has exploded, with Shazam, SoundHound, and other music identifiers regularly topping the app popularity charts. We even think [they’ll end up being the real QR codes](http://evolver.fm/2012/02/02/shazam-goes-all-superbowl-on-us-is-audio-the-new-qr-code/?ref=hypebot.com), where television is concerned anyway, by allowing you to follow televised links on your smartphone or tablet by identifying the audio in an ad or television show.

Today, [Shazam](http://evolver.fm/appdb/app/shazam/?ref=hypebot.com), the leading provider of music identification apps, [added](http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pressrelease.html?nid=NEWS20121211162714&ref=hypebot.com) an interesting new feature that highlights the [need for smartphones to work without being connected](http://evolver.fm/2012/02/21/unsexy-sounding-offline-playback-is-crucial-to-medias-future/?ref=hypebot.com) to the cloud — just one of the ways that they are [becoming computers even as they replace them](http://evolver.fm/2012/12/04/computers-are-over-or-are-they/?ref=hypebot.com).

In addition to offline mode, the latest version of Shazam also adds a new interface in the form of “a dial that responds to music,” bigger album art, the ability to search your own tags, sharing to Google+, and enhanced features for the visually impaired.

*Download [Shazam](http://evolver.fm/appdb/app/shazam/?ref=hypebot.com) (free) or [Shazam Encore](http://evolver.fm/appdb/app/shazam-encore/?ref=hypebot.com) ($6).*

*(via [addictivetips](http://www.addictivetips.com/ios/shazam-for-iphone-now-tags-songs-while-offline-to-identify-them-later/?ref=hypebot.com))*

  
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