Shazam to Offer New Paid Service

Shazam, the popular music identification service has launched a new premium service called Encore. For a one-time fee of $4.99, users can download the new app from the App Store and receive additional functionality beyond what Shazam offers. The new features include:

• Faster tagging of songs
• Music recommendations
• Shazam Tag Charts
• Drive and Tag, a car mode which will tag all songs while a user is driving

Additionally, Shazam has announced that new users of its free app will be limited to just 5 tags each month. Existing Shazam users will be grandfathered in, with no limits to the number of tags.