Other potentially useful features include offline functionality. Concert ticket purchasing is integrated, and you can also do the usual sharing on Facebook and Twitter. Tight integration with Spotify lets you listen to tagged music again. Both the free and paid versions allow you to save 30-second previews see full lyrics as the music plays buy tracks and watch videos. Shazam Encore, the paid version of the app, has ads removed. 1 being an understandable failure - and back at quiet home base, with a now reasonably clean car and full belly, I ran further tests. I decided to go more easy on the app - test No. There was no mention of elevator music - or indeed, car washes. Tagging is the identification of the music that’s playing. It told me that it couldn’t find a match and then explained that singing, humming and performances won’t be tagged. ![]() I then pressed the “Touch to Shazam” button and thrust my smartphone skyward, just as an oversized bus went past in the street, and the blower drier kicked-in again. I opened the just-installed app and after agreeing to various terms, I waited for a blower drier lull. “Aha,” I thought, wits about me, “Shazam reckons it can identify songs instantly? Well, let’s see if it can identify this garbage.” Sitting on the bench in the shade after the nosh, along with a limo driver or two, watching the hard-workers polish my car, I detected the faint yet unmistakable tinkling sound of elevator music above the roar of the blowing drier. I had downloaded the app just before a planned lunch that included a sojourn to my neighborhood car wash - which conveniently features a simple Mexican eatery. ![]() I think I may have asked it the impossible. It is supposed to identify songs you’re listening to, and tell you the artists’ names and lyrics and more. ![]() I have to confess to being a little unfair on the Shazam Encore app for its first LinuxInsider test. Shazam Encore, an app from Shazam Entertainment Limited, is available for US$4.99 at Google Play.
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