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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When I updated I didnt see that part about how it stays unlimited for those updating. Maybe they added it in. Regardless, I updated and it is working just fine for me. I was able to tag more than 5 so its safe to say they are correct, still unlimited!
Yup, I think they snuck that wording in yesterday in an effort to clear any confusion – a good idea I think.
Well it didnt keep unlimited tagging for me, so instead of buying shazam for 4.99 i got midomi which does everything shazam does plus more (eg it can tag songs just from you humming it)
Very odd – and you were an existing user from before that update?
I have the same problem. I've been a user since I bought my iphone in August. Now, every time I open the app it says I'm limited to 5 tags a month.
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