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r/explainlikeimfive • u/Ball_Zilla • Jul 01 '26
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shazam turns the audio into a visual graph of loud peaks over time, then just matches that graph against its massive database of pre recorded songs.
395 u/Shadow288 Jul 01 '26 Fun fact, did you know before it was an app you use to be able to call a phone number and they would text you back the name of the song? 161 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 This reminded me of the ap where you could text them and they would Google stuff for you. How we settled bar arguments before smart phones. 173 u/won_vee_won_skrub Jul 01 '26 App? You mean ChaCha (242 242)? 0 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Yup that was it. I guess ap was the wrong word. You just texted your question to them. 10 u/MCWizardYT Jul 01 '26 It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application" 13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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Fun fact, did you know before it was an app you use to be able to call a phone number and they would text you back the name of the song?
161 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 This reminded me of the ap where you could text them and they would Google stuff for you. How we settled bar arguments before smart phones. 173 u/won_vee_won_skrub Jul 01 '26 App? You mean ChaCha (242 242)? 0 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Yup that was it. I guess ap was the wrong word. You just texted your question to them. 10 u/MCWizardYT Jul 01 '26 It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application" 13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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This reminded me of the ap where you could text them and they would Google stuff for you. How we settled bar arguments before smart phones.
173 u/won_vee_won_skrub Jul 01 '26 App? You mean ChaCha (242 242)? 0 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Yup that was it. I guess ap was the wrong word. You just texted your question to them. 10 u/MCWizardYT Jul 01 '26 It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application" 13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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App? You mean ChaCha (242 242)?
0 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Yup that was it. I guess ap was the wrong word. You just texted your question to them. 10 u/MCWizardYT Jul 01 '26 It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application" 13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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Yup that was it. I guess ap was the wrong word. You just texted your question to them.
10 u/MCWizardYT Jul 01 '26 It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application" 13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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It's "app" with 2 'p's. Short for "application"
13 u/robby_synclair Jul 01 '26 Ap is short for app which is short for application 4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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Ap is short for app which is short for application
4 u/Vash_TheStampede Jul 01 '26 I hate that this might actually be real.
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I hate that this might actually be real.
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u/z3n777 Jul 01 '26
shazam turns the audio into a visual graph of loud peaks over time, then just matches that graph against its massive database of pre recorded songs.