WhoSampled

I am o b s e s s e d with this app - unbelievable how many hours in futile google searching it’s saved me and it’s honestly my primary music discovery tool at this point too. My friends and I spend hours at a time on it. The search function is so intuitive and user-friendly (+ the listening function w time stamps) it’s almost impossible not to go down a crazy rabbit hole. It’s a fairly simple premise and the earlier versions got the job done just fine, so I think it’s so neat they keep working on it and adding new features.

Long story short: if you want to feel like you've been robbed by a poorly designed carnival game rather than enjoy your music, by all means, give this app your money. Otherwise, save yourself the headache and keep your cash for actual music! Literal waste of money… I’d give it zero stars if I could! Long story long: Honestly, I'm pretty bummed. I heard a new song, and I swear the first part of it is sampling another song. When I saw there was a “Shazam-like” app that I could listen to songs to figure that out, I was stoked and thought, hey, that’s worth $3.99. Talk about being jebaited because when I open the app to try to listen to the song I wanted to figure out, it wants to charge me another $9.99 as a subscription! On top of the $3.99 I already wasted. So then I try to search for the song manually, and it doesn’t even have the song I was looking for. Literal waste of money, bull!

I’d like to say that not only do you need the $3.99 to buy the app and use it for minimal things such as a few lyrics to find a song and that’s about it. You’re almost forced to spend the extra $9.99 to allow it to use your microphone to listen, pretty much the whole purpose of downloading the FREE app called “Shazam”. I tried this app thinking it could find sampled songs but if you’re into more underground music you’ll find nothing, fan-made, unreleased, leaked, unfinished, etc… You’ll only find completely published and sometimes a song name with an “unknown artist”. The last amazing feature is how after being so dissatisfied and wanting a refund, the app refuses to let me contact any staff relating to this joke of an app. I hope whoever reads this enjoys my aggravating experience and goes to soundcloud, google, shazam, anything else.