How to Connect Shazam and Spotify (And Why Your Future Self Will Thank You)
You’re at a bar. A track comes on. You pull out your phone, hit Shazam, and move on with your night. Three weeks later, you’re building a set and you remember there was that one track… but you can’t remember the name, the artist, or where you heard it.
Shazam remembers. Spotify can remember too. And if you connect them, your phone turns into a capture device that feeds directly into your discovery pipeline — and eventually, straight into Kombiner.
Here’s how to wire it up, and why it matters.
Why Bother Connecting Them?
Shazam is the best tool in the world for identifying a track you’re hearing right now. It’s fast, it’s accurate, and it works in loud rooms.
What it’s historically been bad at is what happens next. You identify a track, and then… it sits in your Shazam history, which you never open again.
Connecting Shazam to Spotify fixes that. Every track you Shazam gets automatically added to a Spotify playlist called “My Shazam Tracks”. That playlist becomes the single source of truth for “things I heard out in the world and want to do something about later.”
And once it’s in Spotify, Kombiner can see it.
The Setup (It Takes 60 Seconds)
On iOS
- Open the Shazam app
- Tap your profile icon in the top-left corner
- Tap the settings gear in the top-right
- Under Connected Services, tap Spotify
- Tap Connect and authorize with your Spotify account
That’s it. From this point on, every Shazam is automatically appended to your My Shazam Tracks playlist on Spotify.
On Android
- Open the Shazam app
- Tap the Library tab
- Tap the settings gear in the top-right
- Tap Connect next to Spotify
- Authorize with your Spotify account
Bonus: Set Spotify as Your Default Player
While you’re in Shazam settings, find Default Music Player (or Streaming Music App) and set it to Spotify. Now when you tap a Shazamed track, it opens in Spotify instead of Apple Music — useful if Spotify is where your DJ discovery actually lives.
What This Actually Looks Like in Practice
You’re out. A track plays. You Shazam it. You put your phone away.
A few things just happened invisibly:
- The track is saved to your Shazam library with a timestamp
- The track is added to My Shazam Tracks on Spotify
- The track is now reachable by any tool that can read your Spotify playlists
You don’t have to screenshot the Shazam result. You don’t have to manually type the track name into a Notes app. You don’t have to remember anything.
Where Kombiner Picks It Up (planned for near future release)
This is the part that closes the loop.
Kombiner’s Spotify plugin can read your playlists — including My Shazam Tracks. So the workflow from “heard it in a bar” to “playing it in your set” becomes:
- Out in the world → You Shazam a track. It lands in My Shazam Tracks.
- At home → You open Kombiner. Your Shazamed tracks are right there, waiting, with all the metadata connected plugins got, including Key, BPM, Genre and listen count.
- One click → You press Acquire on the tracks you want. Kombiner finds them on Beatport (or your configured source), purchases/downloads them, converts to chosen format if required, and files them according to your path template.
- Ready to play → The track is in your library, correctly named, correctly tagged, correctly formatted, ready to export into Rekordbox/Serato/Traktor.
No screenshots. No “to buy” playlists you’ll never revisit. No typing artist names into Beatport’s search bar. No wondering whether you already own it.
Shazam in the wild. Acquire at home. Play tomorrow.
A Few Things Worth Knowing
The My Shazam Tracks playlist is one-way. Tracks are added automatically, but nothing gets removed when you delete them from your Shazam history. If you want to clean it up, do it directly in Spotify.
It works retroactively, sort of. Once connected, Shazam will backfill recent identifications into the Spotify playlist — but not your entire historical library. If you have years of Shazam history, consider that an archive and start fresh from the connection date.
If a track isn’t on Spotify, it won’t appear in the playlist. Shazam still logs it in your Shazam history, but the Spotify bridge only works for tracks Spotify actually has. For underground stuff, this is a real limitation — but Kombiner can still acquire from other sources once the track is in your library via a different import path.
Your Spotify playlist is private by default. My Shazam Tracks doesn’t get shared or published. It’s yours.
The Bigger Point
A good DJ workflow isn’t about doing more things. It’s about making sure that the small actions you already take — like pulling out your phone to Shazam a track — feed into a system that does the rest of the work for you.
Shazam → Spotify → Kombiner is a three-stage pipeline that requires exactly one human action: pressing the Shazam button. Everything downstream of that is automatic, or one click away.
You heard a track. Now it’s in your library. That’s the whole thing.
Kombiner is in early access on macOS and Windows. If you want to close the loop between discovery and play, get access →.