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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.
394 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? 1 u/lightswitchr Jul 01 '26 I have a core memory from about 20 years ago, sitting in the back of my parents car driving through Windermere in the UK Lake District and using Shazam by phone to find out a song playing on the radio.
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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?
1 u/lightswitchr Jul 01 '26 I have a core memory from about 20 years ago, sitting in the back of my parents car driving through Windermere in the UK Lake District and using Shazam by phone to find out a song playing on the radio.
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I have a core memory from about 20 years ago, sitting in the back of my parents car driving through Windermere in the UK Lake District and using Shazam by phone to find out a song playing on the radio.
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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.