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Shazam for iPhone debuted on 10 July 2008, with the launch of Apple's App Store. The free app enabled users to launch iTunes and buy the song directly, [16] although the service struggled to identify classical music. [17] Shazam launched on the Android platform on 30 October 2008, [18] and on the Windows Mobile Marketplace a year later. [19]
The company was co-founded in 2005 by Keyvan Mohajer, an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur who specializes in voice AI. [11]In 2009, the company's music discovery app Midomi was rebranded as SoundHound, but is still available as a web version on midomi.com. [12] [13] The app grew from 2 million users in January 2010 to 100 million users in September 2012.
Shazam's algorithm picks out points where there are peaks in the spectrogram that represent higher energy content. [2] Focusing on peaks in the audio greatly reduces the impact that background noise has on audio identification. Shazam builds their fingerprint catalog out as a hash table, where the key is the frequency.
Shazam (wizard), a character from the Shazam!/Captain Marvel comics, who gives the superhero and his associates their powers; Shazam!, a scrambler-style theme park ride based on DC's Shazam character, located at Six Flags St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Shazam!, 1974–1977 live-action television series based on the comic book franchise
In 2012, Shazam announced that it drove over $300 million a year in music downloads. [21] [22] Shazam had raised $143.5 million in venture capital financing and its investors included Kleiner Perkins, [23] IDG Ventures, [16] DN Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music. [24]
The song was adopted in an Apple Watch Series 3 commercial, titled "Roll", which was debuted during an Apple event on 12 September 2017. [1] However, viewers were unable to identify the song, as audio-recognizing apps, including Shazam, failed to recognize the song. [2]
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album composed by Christophe Beck, to the 2023 film of the same name, the sequel to Shazam! (2019) and the 12th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The album featured 28 tracks and was released on March 10, 2023 by WaterTower Music.
Bing Audio (also known as Bing Music) [1] is a music recognition application created by Microsoft which is installed on Windows Phones running version 7.5 and above, including Windows Phone 8. On Windows Phone 8.1 , and in regions where the Microsoft Cortana voice assistant is available, Bing Music is integrated with Cortana [ 2 ] and the music ...