As Josh posted about yesterday, Shazam “ the hugely popular song-identifying app for the iPhone – has recently released a new, paid-for, app called Shazam Encore.  They also announced that new users of the existing, free, Shazam app would be subject to a 5 tags (song identifications) per month limit. Since then I […]
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Shazam Update – Yes, Existing Users Keep Unlimited Tagging

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As Josh posted about yesterday, Shazam “ the hugely popular song-identifying app for the iPhone – has recently released a new, paid-for, app called Shazam Encore.  They also announced that new users of the existing, free, Shazam app would be subject to a 5 tags (song identifications) per month limit.

Since then I ‘ve seen a number of people asking whether or how the ‘grandfathering ‘ of existing users would be handled, and whether they would really continue to have unlimited tagging. The update page for Shazam ‘s free version “ shown above “ makes it clear that you do keep unlimited tagging.

I ‘ve tried this out a little this afternoon “ and it certainly works fine for me.  I reeled off a dozen tags in a short space of time and got no complaints from the app.  If you had a chance to update, let us know how it goes for you.

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