Technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. One of the great services currently available for music recognition is Shazam without a doubt. After the purchase by Apple in 2017, it was integrated into all Big Apple products via elements in the operating systems themselves or via Siri. In reality, now Shazam is making the leap to Google Chrome with an extension that’s super easy to install and use. Now, any user who wants to check out what’s playing in Google’s own browser can do so via Shazam and the extension we teach you to use after the jump.
Shazam integrates with Google Chrome via an extension
Would you like to know what song is playing in that YouTube video or Netflix movie, the SoundCloud mix you’re listening to, or the video game you just discovered on Twitch? Download and install the Shazam browser extension to find out with one click. Discover artists, lyrics and videos for free. Shazam identifies a billion songs every month.
Shazam is one of those essentials that you must have on your device. Thanks to the integration with Siri or the Control Center in iOS, there is no need to install it as an app on Apple devices. However, in all others, it is an essential application to detect what songs are playing around us and that they keep us in suspense to know their name and the artist who interprets them.
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Its use is as simple as pressing a button and letting the application listen until it finally offers us the result. The speed with which results are found is amazing and the database continues to be updated daily with thousands of new songs. In reality, Support for Shazam on different devices around the world is very broad:
- ios
- macOS
- Android
- Snapchat
- watchOS
- Android Wear
Apple wanted to make the leap to web browsers create a specific Shazam extension for Google Chrome, With which all users of macOS, Windows or Linux will be able to access the service quickly and in a way that is not at all intrusive. We explain how to install and use it.
How to recognize songs with Shazam by installing the extension
The most important thing, of course, is have Google Chrome on your computer. You can do this by entering the browser’s official website and installing it easily in just a few steps. The next step is to go to the extension’s official website and click on To install. Once installed, in the navigation bar, we can set the Shazam icon by clicking on the pushpin icon.
From this moment we will have a shortcut to Shazam from the navigation bar which will launch the service. To launch the application it is important find us in the tab where the song is playing. At that time we will click on the Shazam icon and a context menu will appear from the service icon. We will leave for a few seconds and the search result will be displayed with the artist and the song currently playing.
If you click on it, We access the Shazam site with the result of the listening performed. We’ll be able to listen to full song on Apple Music if we are logged in and have an active subscription to Apple’s music streaming service. Moreover, we can check the lyrics of the song, find popular songs by the artist, share the song and even add it to your Apple Music playlists.
The creation of a Shazam extension for Google Chrome is yet another step in the expansion of a service that is becoming a must on the devices of many users. However, many users have complained about the malfunction of the extension. It is likely that Apple will update it in the next few days and it will just be an older version than the official announcement since the expansion is not announced on the official Shazam website although they are linked to the Google Chrome extension store.
