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> Wow blew my mind was when Google introduced 'hum and we'll recognize the song for you' in Google assistant

Their announcement actually made me roll my eyes a bit, as Soundhound had that functionality nearly a decade before. I had both SH and Shazam installed on my old phone for these usecases - now Shazam is baked into Siri so I don’t even have the app itself installed.

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How well does Shazam work for you when you hum or sing a song?

Doesn't work at all

I haven’t tried humming with Shazam recently, but I don’t think it worked well back when I did have the actual app. It works very well for music though. I used it around five times, just this Wednesday night at a concert, and it got every track for me.

Soundhound is what had humming “support” explicitly in its product description, and it worked pretty well from what I remember. It’s been long enough though that I may only be remembering the times it worked.

What do you have to ask Siri to get this to work?

I usually say "Hey Siri, what song am I listening to?" but it works with a bunch of variations e.g.: "what song is this?"

There's also a bunch of other options to trigger Shazam, main way I use it is from the Control Center: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210331

If you have an Apple Watch, you can also set it as a home screen button, which is a lot more discreet in public.

“Hey Siri, what song is this” works

If you prefer to access it via your iPhone's control center, you can configure it that way in the control center settings. It is called "Music Recognition" there.

Nice I will have to check this out, control center is definitely a great little overlay but I haven't reliably figured out how to add things to it. I will investigate further.

For general information have a look here [0]. Also be aware that elements in the control center might even offer additional functionality, e.g. like setting the brightness of the flashlight. In this case instead of just switching the flashlight on by a tap on the button, keep the flashlight button pressed to bring up a slider to set the brightness. Just play around with the other control center elements to find out what is possible.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iph59095ec58/ios

I just say Hey Siri Shazam this.

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