Decoding Shazam: How does music recognition work with Shazam app?

It’s a typical scenario: You listen to a song at a restaurant or an event, and then that song stays with you, haunting you, forcing you to find its source and singer. Earlier, the only option was to replicate that song, or a few verses and ask friends and family to hunt for the source. But since 1999, this changed, because that year, a magical app was born, called Shazam. What Exactly Is Shazam? Shazam is an app that can recognize music, movies, advertising, and television shows, and showcase the source and other details about that content. It seems magical, right? In this blog, we will decode the internal working of Shazam, and find out how it works. But first, let’s have an overview of Shazam, and find out some startling facts about this app. Shazam: A brief history Shazam was launched in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee, who teamed up to create a system that can recognize music and other related content and reveal everything about them. In ...