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Warped · 2014-04-26, 07:53

What is it?

Shazam is a commercial mobile phone-based music identification service, with its headquarters in London, England. The company was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang and Dhiraj Mukherjee.

Shazam uses a mobile phone's built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of music being played. An acoustic fingerprint is created based on the sample, and is compared against a central database for a match. If a match is found, information such as the artist, song title, and album are relayed back to the user.

How to get it?

Shazam can be downloaded to your phone from your phone's shop application. Shazam is downloadable for Android devices, Apple iPhone, BlackBerry devices, Nokia smartphones, Windows Phone devices, and most Sony Ericsson phones.