Shazam identifies songs using an audio fingerprint based on a time-frequency graph called a spectrogram. It uses a smartphone or computer's built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of the audio being played. … See more

Shazam's initial $7.5M in venture capital investment, in September 2001, came from Lynx New Media, IDG Ventures Europe, and FLV, a Belgian speech-recognition … See more

• ACRCloud
• Axwave
• Beat Shazam, a television game show where contestants compete to identify songs faster than the app
• Bing Audio identification See more

• Shazam – official site
• Shazam – track ranking at Apple Music
• Wang, Avery Li-Chun (2003). "An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm" (PDF). International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). See more

Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton and Philip Inghelbrecht, who were MBA students at the University of California, Berkeley, … See more

In May 2009, Tune Hunter accused Shazam of violating U.S. patent 6,941,275, which covers music identification and purchase in a … See more

• Dredge, Stuart (27 February 2013). "Shazam: 'TV advertising is going to become our primary revenue stream'". The Guardian. … See more