Shazam

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Shazam, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

App became sluggish and too slow to load on older phones2023-12-06
Shazam fails to recognize classical pieces unless the exact recording is in its database2020-05-22
Opening songs in preferred streaming service now takes more steps2019-02-20
Opening non-Apple Music services now takes multiple clicks2019-02-19
Watch app randomly crashes and third-party apps take 10 seconds to start2018-09-25
Takes about 30 seconds to unlock the phone and open Shazam2018-01-11
Tapping a result forces a jump to Apple Music; can't copy the song name2017-12-08
App is slow to launch and the Shazam button can't be pressed right away2016-11-14
Big listen button is gone; app now cluttered with buy links and sign-up prompts2016-05-17