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Shazam, the pre-eminent music ID app for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Phone has completed their first corporate acquisition, and have waste no time in integrating its features. LyricPlay syncs up with music as you’re listening to it, and shows you the words to the song in a sharp and animated format.
The new LyricPlay option shows up as you would normally tag a song: open the app, hold up your phone to the source of music as it’s playing, wait for the audio clip to go to Shazam’s servers, do its black voodoo identification magic, and come back with album details, artist biographies, YouTube music videos, and lots of other song info. It even plugs in to Pandora and Spotify if you want to stream the song to your phone later, or buy the track through Amazon. You can also share songs you’re listening to through Facebook and Twitter, if you’re into that kind of thing. Shazam’s primary competitor is SoundHound, which has the added bonus of being able to recognize sung, hummed, or even spoken music.
Unfortunately, LyricPlay is only available for those that spring for the premium version of the iPhone app, which is currently going for about $6 ($5 in the Android Market, $6 in BlackBerry App World). You can always stick with the free version, which will still let you have unlimited tags until next year. Download links for both apps are below – check ‘em out!
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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