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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]
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 .
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.
This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see Comparison of feed aggregators.
In 2013, Riley became CEO of Shazam, [13] replacing Andrew Fisher, who now serves as Executive Chairman. Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2017. [14] Riley is an executive producer of the Fox TV series Beat Shazam, based on the app and hosted by Jamie Foxx, also an executive producer.
Autoheart is a London-based indie-pop group formed in 2011, consisting of Jody Gadsden , Simon Neilson (piano, keys and saxophone), and Barney JC (guitar, bass, keys). [ 1 ] As of March 2024, the band releases their music independently.
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.
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