ID music with your Mac with new Shazam app for OS X

ID music with your Mac with new Shazam app for OS X
Unlike the mobile app, the Mac app does not require you to tap or click a button to tag a song; it's listening all of the time. Actually, it listens for 4-hour stretches; a counter marks the time remaining in the app's drop-down panel accessible from the menu bar. Next to the counter is a switch to turn the app on and off.When a song or TV show or ad is playing on your Mac or nearby, Shazam uses your Mac's microphone to listen to what's playing. When it finds a match, it notifies you and adds the track or show or ad to the drop-down panel.From this panel of your recent identifications, you can click on an item to open a Shazam.com page in your default browser with information that can include videos, lyrics, album information, and various purchase options. For most tracks listed in the drop-down panel, you can also click an iTunes button to purchase the track.In my admittedly brief testing, Shazam identified every song I threw at it except for a live version of Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty" and a young R.L. Burnside singing "See My Jumper Hanging on the Line."Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETIn order to work, Shazam needs your microphone enabled and set to an input volume high enough to hear what's around you. The Shazam support site states, "Any input volume halfway or above should suffice." Head to System Preferences > Sound and click on the Input tab to adjust your microphone's input volume level.(Via The Next Web)