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In September 2012, the service was expanded to enable TV users in the US to identify featured music, access cast information, and get links to show information online, as well as added social networking capabilities.

Shazam can identify music being played from any source, provided that the background noise level is not high enough to prevent an acoustic fingerprint being taken, and that the song is present in the software's database.Īs well as the free app, the company has released a paid app called Shazam Encore. Some implementations of Shazam incorporate relevant links to services such as iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, or Groove Music. If it finds a match, it sends information such as the artist, song title, and album back to the user. Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint in a database of millions of songs. The user tags a song for 10 seconds and the application creates an audio fingerprint. Shazam stores a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database. It uses a smartphone or computer's built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of audio being played. Shazam identifies songs using an audio fingerprint based on a time-frequency graph called a spectrogram. The target zone of a song scanned by Shazam