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Life & fun · July 31, 2014

Shazam for Mac

Listens and identifies music in the background

Shazam for Mac launched on July 31, 2014 with 151 votes, #110 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Download Shazam: Identify Songs by Apple on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Shazam: Identify Songs.

Shazam, supposedly an Apple-friendly app, can fail to request microphone access and is consequently useless, as it's not possible in the Mac OS to manually add to the System Preferences. The problem? Not only does the icon get hidden behind the notch on the new MBP laptops if you've more than even a small number of add-ons here, but when you attempt to open the app, it fails to request microphone access. And the system-level scaling feature to workaround the notch doesn't seem to work. Not sure if this is more for the developer or for Apple to deal with but it is highly problematic. What you have to do is close out of everything else with menubar items to bring the Shazam icon into the…from apps.apple.com

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