Shazam - Get Shazam (Or Not)

Shazam - Get Shazam

So I've known about this app for ages and thought it seemed like a cool idea but never downloaded it. I just couldn't think of a circumstance where I would use it, driving down the road hearing a song on the radio and using my phones app to figure out what song it is?

Tonight I was watching a movie from South Korea called The Good, The Bad and the Weird. Awesome movie by the way, anyway this music started playing during a long battle scene on horseback and I recognized it as a disco song from my youth. It was driving me crazy and then I remembered this app for Android or iPhone caled Shazam, I downloaded it right away while I paused the movie.

I tried 10 times using Shazam to find out the song with no luck, then I remembered you could alsome sing or hum the tune since the film had background noise from gunshots and explosions. So I hummed it a few times and again it could not make a match, guess I'll never know what the song was since I couldn't read the Korean credits at the end.

I can see how the social networking aspect could be cool, sharing musical likes with your friends via tagging. The thing is you can already let people know what, who, where and everything else using Twitter or Facebook. I can see people reading about this app and getting it, I just don't see where many folks would keep it and use it long term.