"What was the name of that song I shazamed while visiting Amsterdam? Ah, here it is."

Location is massively important in searching for a memory. I will forget the dates I was in Europe, but I will not forget that I was there.

Is that a use case Shazam supports? I would think if the song was good you would add it to your library.

To answer your original question: I checked the latest version of Shazam, and it does not request location services at all. (And I can't find a setting that might enable it later, either.)

I believe cmelbye was simply responding to your "if yes" with a justification for why it's useful. Even if I added the song to my library, what if I don't remember the name or the artist? Will I find it easily amongst the 5000 other songs I've got in there? And maybe I didn't like the song, but I'm reminded of it for some reason and it's really bugging me that I can't remember enough details to find it again. I guess I could listen to every single from every unfamiliar artist I see in my Shazaam history...

Indexing our life events by location and time, paired with a smoother search interface, would dramatically improve the memory augmentation aspects of our personal devices. There are, of course, tremendous privacy risks in accumulating this data (which is why the design tradeoffs / permission system around location services exists in the first place).

No need to wonder. On my iPhone, Shazam has access to location while in use. It’s my impression that most people auto-click “yes” when prompted for this.

Yet, do many people use the standalone Shazam app, rather than the Siri integration?