{"id":70158,"date":"2014-07-31T23:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=70158"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:34:25","slug":"shazam-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shazam-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazam for Mac IDs songs and shows from the menu bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular music identifying app, <strong>Shazam<\/strong>, is now available on <a title=\"Mac tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a>. The app runs in your menu bar so you can access it no matter what you&#8217;re doing on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>The app sits quietly in the background, ready for you to ask what song is playing. A window will pop up with the result and a <strong>history<\/strong> of songs you&#8217;ve looked up. From there, you can choose to buy a song from <strong>iTunes <\/strong>(<a title=\"iTunes for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a> | <a title=\"iTunes for Windows 32-bit\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Shazam for Mac does more than ID songs; it also looks up <strong>TV shows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Shazam already have a partnership on <a title=\"iOS tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>. Shazam provides music tagging services for Siri when someone asks, &#8220;Siri. What&#8217;s playing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can get the app from the <a title=\"Shazam for Mac\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/id897118787?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac App Store<\/a> for free.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"What's new in iTunes 12\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/itunes-12-hands-on-preview\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What&#8217;s new in iTunes 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"OneNote update for iOS and Mac adds file attachments\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/onenote-for-ios-and-mac-update-lets-you-attach-files\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote update for iOS and Mac adds file attachments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iOS 8 will include an iPhoto to Photos migration tool\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/ios-8-will-help-users-transition-from-iphoto-to-photos\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8 will include an iPhoto to Photos migration tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to take a screenshot on Mac OS X\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-mac-os-x\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to take a screenshot on Mac OS X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"OS X Yosemite public beta available tomorrow, July 24\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-public-beta-available-tomorrow-july-24th\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OS X Yosemite public beta available tomorrow, July 24<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular music identifying app, Shazam, is now available on Mac. The app runs in your menu bar so you can access it no matter what you&#8217;re doing on your computer. The app sits quietly in the background, ready for you to ask what song is playing. A window will pop up with the result and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shazam-for-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shazam for Mac IDs songs and shows from the menu bar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":70160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2545],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-70158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionshazam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330430,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70158\/revisions\/330430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70158"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=70158"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=70158"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=70158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}