The Tech Behind Shazam

US How they ID over 23,000 songs per minute 31/07/23

Shazam is one of the most impressive apps created to identify what track or song you're listening to. This video explains how the service takes small fragments of music recorded by users for identification and references a phenomenal catalog of existing productions.

It works using scatter plots, which identify the transients in the song - rather than the actual harmonic content, as shown on a spectrogram. Genius!

https://www.shazam.com/gb/home

About the author [midierror]: midierror is co-founder of Potato Audio, he makes nifty Max For Live devices, award-winning Sample Packs and hosts the 'midierror meets...' interview series speaking with all kinds of people working in sound & music.

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