RIM recently sponsored a major music industry conference in Cannes and Jim Balsillie dropped the fact that Shazam is coming to BlackBerry in the next few weeks. This new app is a music recognition service that will let you know what song is playing. Some carriers already offer this kind of service over a phone call but hopefully this will be an app with a much lower price point.
It looks like RIM is trying to really take a piece of the mobile music pie away from Apple and their iPod/iPhone. Shazam along with Slacker and a bunch of other services such as Flycast might just help them do so. Now if only they could get Pandora…
via Boston Globe & MocoNews
jonp Not Registered
Posted: January 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM EST
that’s great! I’ve been waiting for this to come to a blackberry since I saw it on the iphone
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1231
Posted: January 20, 2009 at 6:47 PM EST
I am been wondering when RIM was going to get this my old Sony PDA had it.. that’s yrs ago.
Rob Not Registered
Posted: January 20, 2009 at 9:56 PM EST
just got my bold last week and it has “music ID” powered by shazam installed on it. Is this new?
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5298
Posted: January 20, 2009 at 11:39 PM EST
@Rob
Could be you know something RIM does not know? I don’t think it is available for BlackBerry right now and their website seems to confirm that… What carrier are you on?
sovak75 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 70
Posted: January 21, 2009 at 12:14 AM EST
AT&T Bold has this under AT&T Music > MusicID. I have it too and I believe it was there when I got it with original firmware the week after Christmas.
sovak75 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 70
Posted: January 20, 2009 at 10:35 PM EST
It’s unlikely this will be put on VZW BB’s (but hopefully you will still be able to install it yoirself) as they are working on porting over VCast SongID which is hokled into their VCast Rhapsody service.
richard Not Registered
Posted: January 31, 2009 at 11:50 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
Yaay! We just used the crap out of Shazam on my friends iPhone and it almost made me kinda sad I went for a BB storm
Joan Turkey Not Registered
Posted: February 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM EST
Well….WHERE IS IT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
Sovak75 Not Registered
Posted: February 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM EST
If you have the Blackberry Bold with AT&T you already have it
under AT&T Music > MusicID
If you have a different phone who knows when or if it will come out.
Joan Turkey Not Registered
Posted: February 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM EST
Where is it for the rest of us? I am on verizon…It has been more than a few weeks. Why did they blurt out such a specific time frame with no intention of delivering on that promise. I hate that.
Sovak75 Not Registered
Posted: February 19, 2009 at 3:17 AM EST
In all likeyhood this will not work on a VZW BB anyway as they are in the process or porting over their own VCast SongID application which does the same thing.
Joan Turkey Not Registered
Posted: February 24, 2009 at 3:09 AM EST
Ok, so basically it is totally irrelevant that shazam is (never) going to come to blackberry because AT&T/T-Mobile users already have it and Verizon users won’t be able to use it since they want to peddle their own crap. Gee…makes no sense to me either. If anyone can ACTUALLY answer this question and not avoid it with work-arounds and alternatives, I would be greatly appreciative. If not, I’d prefer you simply not reply at all.
bba ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 3
Posted: February 25, 2009 at 2:50 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9500
Will it be available for the vodafone storm? Please say yes.