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. Overview The target zone of a song scanned by Shazam On September 24, 2018, the company was acquired by Apple for a reported $400 million. The original UK developer of the app, Shazam Entertainment Limited, was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee.

The software is available for Android, macOS, iOS, Wear OS, watchOS and as a Google Chrome extension. It was created by London-based Shazam Entertainment, and has been owned by Apple Inc. Shazam is an application that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. Android, macOS, iOS, Wear OS, watchOS, Google Chrome

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