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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by coldtea on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:21PM (#18069571)
>As a DJ constantly looking for tracks to add to the collection. I listen to streaming music pretty constantly. For individual tracks with all of the metadata, the artist/track name info is provided. For listening to other DJ mixes, you just get the DJ name and mix name. Shazam tells me the specific track.

So a pretty narrow demographic for the feature though...

Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by dylan604 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:19PM (#18070144)
>So a pretty narrow demographic for the feature though...

If you're only going to take one person's usage then, yeah, I guess it's pretty narrow. How about another example for from the same person. As a video editor I'm constantly having to find "hip/trendy/cool" music for video edits. These clients typically like music that I do not normally listen to, but I know it's something they would like when I hear it. I'll let it live in My Shazams until one day I need to find something. I've impressed more than one client with the ability to pull out a "fresh" song for them. Clients appreciate that sort of thing.

Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by coldtea on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:30AM (#18073921)
>How about another example for from the same person.

How about it? We've just added video editor looking for cool music to DJ. We could add tens such cases more, but all those combined are still narrow demographics.

Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by pathseeker on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:32PM (#18069703)
Diabetes apps have a narrow demographic too. What's your point?
Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by coldtea on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:37AM (#18073961)
Diabetes apps operate on one of the most lucrative markets (health), and are essential and even life-saving for their demographic. Not a mere nicety for some creative professions...

Also, diabetes narrow? 30 million have it in the US, I'd say those are way more than DJs that need to recognize tunes, and have much more motive to use an app that helps them keep track of something that can have huge impact on their health...

Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by parthdesai on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:40PM (#18069785)
I'm not a DJ, but i listen to electronic music mainly and it usually is on soundcloud in the form of sets. If 1001tracklist doesn't come through, Shazam is my go to app.