Shazam! No, not the DC comics character, although you could be forgiven for thinking so. It’s Shazam, a simple and yet feature packed application that helps you identify any snippet or piece of music with the simple tap of a button on the application. Watch and marvel as Shazam listens to the music for a few seconds before throwing up the exact song and artist, giving you exactly what you’re looking for. Moreover, you’ll also be able to use Shazam on PC, with no similar services currently on offer for Windows, making it the perfect application for your Windows desktop or laptop too!
Let it listen.
This is easily among the most popular applications ever reviewed here. With nearly 500 million downloads (That’s half a BILLION installs), Shazam is a smashing success among mobile device users everywhere and a primary reason for that is nobody is particularly used to having such software at their disposal, even before the advent of smartphones. It’s all the more reason why Shazam for PC ought to appeal to you. Imagine this. You’re playing a video on your computer, watching your favorite TV show and there’s a montage scene with your favorite characters on it and a background score that’s going with it. A piece of music or a song can be instantly catchy and you may want to know what the song is, before you miss it. Fire up Shazam on your computer and hit the ‘Listen’ button and sure enough, moments later, you’ll know the song you’re looking for. Nifty, eh?
Shazam features.
- Get that groovy tune, immediately. Once you let Shazam listen in to that track to let you know what you’re listening to, you can instantly preview the entire song to doubly check that the search results are accurate and then proceed to buy the song as well. With built-in links to Amazon and the Google Play store, you can immediately buy your new favorite song!
- Karaoke that track! With real-time, synchronized lyrics, you’ll also be able to sing along to the song, matching the exact beat to the groovy tune and picking up the words along to the new song that you’ve only just discovered.
- Share your discoveries! With every new song that you discover and deem to be cool, you can instantly share it via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, WhatsApp and other social networks to tell your friends and family about it.
- Link it to your Rdio account! With a seamless sync to your Rdio account, you can create an entire playlist of the songs you discover for later listening, ensuring that these new songs aren’t forgotten easily!
- Watch music videos! There’s an inbuilt video player that lets you watch the music videos for the music you’ve just discovered, really adding to your experience of discovering new music.
- Listen to full tracks. Even though the music you may have listened in to may be a snippet, with Shazam throwing up a small demo of the track, you can still listen in to the entire song by connecting it to your Spotify, Deezer or Rdio accounts through their apps that can also be installed on your computer, while you’re using Shazam on PC.
- Check out song recommendations! You’ll be able to follow others on Shazam, including friends and family and see what they recommend to others, just the way you would while discovering and sharing new music through Shazam.
- Personalize through Google Now! Check this out. Say the command “OK Google, Shazam this song,” from any screen on your mobile device or indeed your Windows desktop or laptop with Shazam running in the background and you you’ll see Shazam work its magic instantly!
Getting Shazam on your desktop!
The all-important part. To get Shazam working on your Windows desktop or laptop, you’ll need a reliable, feature-packed emulator capable of doing the job for you. Andy, is exactly what you’ll need to get Shazam for PC.
Andy is a piece of freeware which can be installed on your computer and fired up on your Windows desktop. Andy also makes use of your PC or laptop’s microphone, giving the precise functionality that Shazam needs to discover what you’re listening to when playing an advertisement on your computer or your favorite TV show that has a groovy tune that you’re itching to find out about. What’re you waiting for?! Get Shazam on your computer, now!
How to Download Shazam for your PC:
Step 1: Download the android emulator software Andy and it is available for free. Click here to download: Download
Step 2: Start the installation of Andy by clicking on the installer file you downloaded.
Step 3: When the software is ready to be used, start it and complete the sign up procedure and login with Google Play account.
Step 4: Start Google play store app and use its search tool to search Shazam download.
Step 5: Find Shazam and start the installation.
Step 6: Launch the game and you can now play Shazam on pc using a mouse or your keyboard and even your touch screen, you can use the control button to emulate the pinch function to zoom in and out.
Step 7: You can also install remote control app form here for remotely accessing the game: Andy remote control app
Support: we maintain an online real-time Facebook support group if you have any issues with Andy OS to the installation process, you can use this link to access the group: support
Enjoy Playing Shazam on PC!!!