every once in a while, we like to remind you of an app that really helps Jive Radio listeners with song and artist identification. it’s a wonderful application called Shazam. it’s free and it downloads to your device in 1-2 minutes at the most. once you install, it’s very simple to use. when you hear a song that sparks a desire for info, you just hold your device up to the speaker as the song plays. within seconds, Shazam will identify (usually) the song, the artist, and often the album title. it’s a very spiffy app and a very handy helper for us at Jive, where most of the time, the songs are being played via random shuffle mode of a computer at Jive Central HQ, and aren’t being identified after airplay. Shazam is our favorite CYA app here at JR!
I’ve found that Shazam will make the call about 80-85% of the time, and when you consider some of the crazy, obscure stuff we occasionally throw out there, that’s a most acceptable batting average.
of course, when you listen to the shows of Sister Tiny, Diane Michaels, and Hayseed Don Darue, you WILL get songs and artists identified, cuz they old school bossjox! so that’s nice……