Adam Kos Shazam surpassed the milestone of one billion "shazams" per month, as announced by Apple, which owns it since 2018. Since its launch, which dates back to 2002, it has even recognized 50 billion songs. However, Apple is responsible for the enormous growth of search, which is trying to better integrate it into its systems. As part of WWDC21 and the presented iOS 15, Apple also introduced ShazamKit, which is available to all developers so that they can better integrate this service into their titles. At the same time, with the sharp version of iOS 15, it will be possible to add Shazam to the Control Center, so that you can access it much faster. But the service is not only available for iOS, you can also find it in Google Play for the platform Android and it works too on the website.
Apple Music and Beats VP Oliver Schusser released a statement regarding the search milestone: “Shazam is synonymous with magic – both for fans who identify with a song almost instantly, and for artists being discovered. With one billion searches per month, Shazam is one of the most popular music apps in the world. Today's milestones show not only the love users have for the service, but also the ever-growing appetite for music discovery around the world.” Unlike other services that allow you to identify a song from any hum, Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and looking for a match based on the acoustic fingerprint in a database of millions of songs. It identifies the tracks with the help of the said fingerprint algorithm, on the basis of which it displays a time-frequency graph called a spectrogram. Once the audio fingerprint is created, Shazam starts searching the database for a match. If it is found, the resulting information is returned to the user.
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The company itself was founded in 1999 by Berkeley students. After its launch in 2002, it was known as the 2580 because customers could only use it by sending a code from their mobile phone to have their music recognized. The phone then hung up automatically within 30 seconds. The result was then sent to the user in the form of a text message containing the title of the song and the name of the artist. Later, the service also started adding hyperlinks in the text of the message, which allowed the user to download the song from the Internet. In 2006, users either paid £0,60 per call or had unlimited use of Shazam for £20 per month, as well as online services to track all tags.
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