Christmas also comes at applications from Apple. Every year Apple Music offers free subscription months through a Shazam app collaboration. This promotion allows users to purchase free months as a "trial" or "compensation" for using the music recognition app. This does not stop being a way to promote the use of both services with the aim of increasing Apple Music subscribers after the trial period is over. Up to five months free can be achieved based on participation in previous promotions
The way to get free months of Apple Music on Shazam
The easiest way to access the promotion is downloading the Shazam app in our terminal. To do so, just press on the following link, or click on the app icon at the bottom of this article. Once we have the app downloaded, we will see a new banner in which you will see: «Limited Time. Get up to 5 months of Apple Music for free ».
Once inside, Shazam will analyze our Apple ID account in order to collect information about our history on Apple Music. That is, if we have ever bought the subscription, how many promotions of this type have we joined, etc. Thus we can go from two months for free, in case of having tried the service on other occasions, until five months free if we haven't tried the tool.
If accessing the application we can not see the banner: do not worry. There are different alternatives. One of them is to press on the following link or capture the QR of the image that heads this part of the article. At that time, the Shazam app will open and we will access the promotion in the same way as by clicking on the banner included within the application itself.
If we press on «get» the promotion will be The Apple Music app will open and a summary of the result of our offer will be shown. At the bottom you see my example. In my case, I had already accessed a similar promotion so I am offered a trial period of two months free after which 9,99 euros will begin to be charged, the monthly fee for the normal version of Apple Music.
For those users who already have an active subscription in Apple Music, they can carry out the same process and the corresponding months of their payment for the service will be reduced. That is, they would have two months without being charged the fee in order to turn it into a Christmas "gift". You have to be careful if you just want to take advantage of the promotion as After the end of the "trial" period, the fee will be automatically charged. If you want to enjoy the promotion, I would recommend setting an alarm days before the payment is made in order to cancel the promotion.
A relationship forged between both services
Shazam is one of the most used applications to recognize music directly. The mechanism is as simple as letting the app "listen" for a few seconds to access the name, artist and album of the song we are listening to. In addition, the integration of the song with streaming music platforms is allowed to be able to access it easily.
Following Apple's purchase of Shazam a few years ago, the feature was integrated into iOS. First through a command in Siri. Subsequently, it was allowed the arrival of a shortcut to the Shazam role through the Control Center. In this way, accessing the service is as simple as invoking Siri or swiping to access the control center.
Apple Music is the music streaming service of the big apple. With almost 70 million active subscribers it is still far from the more than 165 million that Spotify has with more than 360 million active users. But nevertheless, users staying on Apple Music are more loyal to the platform and take advantage of these types of offers that Shazam and Apple they make available to users on such special occasions as the arrival of Christmas. These types of initiatives are likely to achieve embed the feeling of belonging to Apple Music of the subscribed users and of causing the concern of those who doubt whether to pay the subscription or not.
Not in paint. I've always been attracted to the subject of videos and lyrics, but I don't even discover new music and to top it all, it "remakes" my entire music library. Or rather, it "shreds" me. Everything I had in iTunes ends up changing the cover, not recognizing Siri, or even not allowing me to listen / download it on my phone.
A mindless chaos. I prefer a service that does not cannibalize the music library that I have been caring for for years.
Only for new subscriptions ...
If you are already paying (as is my case) it does not work.