How on Earth Does Shazam Recognize Songs

lmao someone notify me when this video gets to 1M views please 😭

It is pretty crazy that shazam has existed since 2002

I've always thought that whoever coded Shazam must be some kind of wizard

"How many rickrolls can you fit in 4 minutes?" "Yes"

I didn’t realize that it was a small channel until the video ended. Underrated

incorrect, they have a bunch of kids they kidnapped from the temu factories that are fed 1 meal a day and pee in bottles who also know every song in existence and they are the ones behind the song recognition ability that shazam has (I used to work there trust I know fr)

Its the Fourier Transform. Physics here. I did this project for a class once. Basically the Fourier Transform decomposes any complex sound (which is an agglomeration of diferent frequencies) and now you are able to "see" each frequency individually. Then the spectogram is a 3D graphic representation of the song (complex sound) by intensity of each frequency and by time. Of course for each song, there is a unique spectogram. The last step is to compare the spectogram in the hash database mentioned in the video and find the one that matches yours.

It just amazes me that Shazam is around that long already. Love your content, keep up that style and personality

criminally underrated channel keep going

I’ve been wondering this for literal years, thank you so much!

How to hell shazam didn't gone viral until apple like this is the most useful thing ever

I don't get how it calculates a hash out of a spectrogram, which contains noise, and uses that to find the right song, which has been stored in the database using a hash without noise. Probably some magic hash algorithm created by math wizards.

It’s something I been needing for longest time to find songs, then I realized something like this exists 6months ago

This video is gonna blow up. Glad to have seen it already, and very informative!

The point to which shazam can recognize songs even with very loud background noises is still insane

You explaned that in 4 min 25 sec and without any unnecessary Information. Great Channel

this video is so well made, so well explained, awesome

Youtube algorithm has been good recently with suggesting me small channels with good content. Keep up the good work!

I always wondered how this works. Great video

Google is one step ahead, we can just hymn the music with our mouth and its gives us prediction, while shazam needs to hear proper music, but it gives accurate result too