How on Earth Does Shazam Recognize Songs

Ever wondered how Shazam does what you can't do? Remember the song? Yeah. I didnt either. But I still made a video about it lol
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[@iamdoofus319]

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

[@aiden.throttl]

ok 👍👍

[@Rick_Sanchez_1337]

You're so obnoxious

[@NoOtherOrangeBoi]

ON IT.✊🏻🪖

[@RepostRayder]

Sameeee

[@henzk]

come back, it hit 2m

[@Ryan-rm6uk]

It is pretty crazy that shazam has existed since 2002

[@Nox_iousrider]

RIGHT? thats insane

[@donichiro]

yes, that is mind boggling! :D

[@Lach1xn]

crazy?

[@thejournalist8091]

i was crazy once

[@rozurido]

they locked me in a room

[@remyxedfern5008]

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

[@ntre.]

throw a hashmap

[@bxzzcut]

one quick and dirty solution is hashing along with calculating jaccard scores

[@Alexoiz]

Same, until I saw this video

[@ahuman2559]

this video is just satire because everyone know the guy who coded it is a wizard and Shazam is just a bunch of magic

[@ParamoreFan-mu2qb]

I mean the guy(s) who coded this are indeed wizards to think of a solution like that

[@LogsMaggot]

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

[@thesolareclipse7847]

yes

[@zayahbeatz]

yes

[@YvngXotiiic]

yes

[@AmberSabir-ce5qn]

Yes

[@SamiQLubiGofry]

Mrwhostheboss would do more

[@okee]

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

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

i didnt even realize that it wasnt pewdiepie until 20 secs in

[@MrTigerPlayz1]

So true me too

[@thesolareclipse7847]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback

[@methan3_]

criminally underrated channel keep going

[@abdullaheta]

yeah

[@notasthrong]

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

[@JackyGamingOfficial]

he literally copied a youtuber named "This." and likely planning to make more content on his style. regardless i like you way of doing things and i hope you make it big on youtube (cuz i couldnt...atleast for now)

[@diogoalmeida4115]

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.

[@evermorecurious91]

One doubt I had.. what if you miss recording the beginning of song,, hows does retrieval work then in. The hash table

[@ScorpioX1618]

I study EE and just now taking Harmonic Analysis where we should study about the Fourier Transform in a few weeks. It's fascinating seeing the math come to life.

[@Kqrit.]

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)

[@RO_CAD_BLOX]

Lol

[@danielthecake8617]

lol! i remember when i worked there! it was so fun listening to rickrolls 24/7 and getting fed 1 liter of Ragu and a crust of bread for a full day.

[@rotkiw1617]

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

[@simonchainbers8943]

Not sure but I used to use Shazam long before apple bought it. It was a well known app in my country.

[@cpaul08]

In Europe from my experience it’s fine reaaaly famous from about 2010-2012

[@FadlySansan]

I think I already used it back then to find the title of a song I heard in a store, my circle is already using it. It was probably 2013 or 2014, the song was Young Blood by The Naked and Famous

[@Neosublimation]

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.

[@iamdoofus319]

i agree lmao

[@guypog7185]

Thanks to fourier transforms, (the spectogram) you get all the frequencies picked up by the mic, so if the noise is not overwhelming the sound of the song youre trying to record, then shazam will just compare the strongest frequencies with the songs it has in the hash, not minding the noise since it pales in conparison to the frequencies of the song

[@user-en6tz3iy1z]

ive met people who generate noise in very high frequencies

[@tekoolll]

@@iamdoofus319grilled cheese

[@GabrielSykes]

"magic hash algorithm created by math wizards" That's every hash algorithm.

[@pinwill]

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

[@Aradze]

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

[@5iwot5]

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

[@iamdoofus319]

you might be just right!

[@Sado10]

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

[@AlyenaMango]

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

[@pedropiw]

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

[@user-sx9fv6lp4s]

0:01 My dad has the same car lol

[@DJPastaYaY]

I always wondered how this works. Great video

[@niklakis]

great video, keep up the good work!

[@derjaxxer]

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

[@stroboduese]

Best Video, which explain how the world work. Love it!

[@boredyoutubeuser]

Back in my days I used google music to recognize my songs, I remember musicing the ratatouille dvd on a road trip on my dad's old phone. 👴

[@xstevenwav]

great content man, keep going 💯

[@icantchooseaname6903]

YOU ARE SO UNDERRATED AHHHHH I SUPPORT UU

[@josh_d_k]

short, concise, to the point. good shit

[@pedrob7066]

wow this was really coool!!!1 watched til the end, liked and subbed!!!!

[@user-hy4ye7lz7x]

give this guy his credit for being a funny presenter explaining random topics that pops up in our covos often, following from the middel east.

[@JustTipy]

Been using Shazam since about 2013, best discovery ever. So glad this video now exists to get some recognition of it

[@simplym4gic]

Reminds me of this. Great content!

[@artur_vasconcelos]

it is pretty crazy that I had only THINKING about "how Shazam works" and 3 days after, KZbin shows it to me.

[@amo_res9266]

Crazy how a good chunk of songs in my playlist is because I hard a song, i liked it, then Shazam. From shazam, I get to discover more songs from that artist

[@proffesionalnoob.]

Nice explation you deserve more subscribers!

[@jasonatcitty]

Always thought about this, thanks

[@jodsav]

Here before 1M views Great job dude, I’d spend hours watching these 5mn videos

[@thevioletrose]

This shit is FIRE, keep pushing out videos like these, please 😭😭

[@yondercommunications]

Wonderful!

[@NMG24.]

Cant even find a lost song 🙏😭

[@shadil8452]

Very well explained.

[@Belu-Son]

Great content!

[@mustafa_annabi]

thx man for unblurring that song title at the end, I was gonna go insane not recognizing the song title because of the blur thing on it

[@V530-15ICR]

Sometimes when I am looking for a song it is not registered anywhere official so it won't be found.

[@ayushagrawal8198]

amazing tech and awesome video

[@ThePurple1234567891]

Great Informative video at two AM

[@bambitsunami4165]

very cool!

[@projectdusan]

am not a loyal fan i just got here XD. but the video is entertaining in a useful way so thumbs up bro

[@itzLevex]

Nice video keep going!

[@TheVirtualArena24]

Nice explanation

[@ta_helado]

so good

[@Menon9767]

Very interesting, thanks

[@chloecmz]

this is so goooood

[@theMadZakuPilot]

great video brother

[@spikeythecactus]

everyone knows that laughing in the corner of the room:

[@sadithawithanage2932]

This man explain in fully just as calm AF❤ 😂

[@ibbyorsmth]

thanks man

[@rahulshendre7089]

it's actually so simple, yet so genius

[@soumallyabasuclass-9droll-875]

great videos ....subbed

[@iamdoofus319]

thank u so much!

[@ExperimentalKana]

most fascinating is the database that is so optimized to find it in seconds

[@Cloud_Effect]

10/10 Content Bro

[@homeboygame]

The real question is how can Shazam not understand some of the songs I make him discover?

[@TheGarryFish]

Its because they're not in it's library

[@ieatthighs]

@@TheGarryFish its*

[@AverageDays]

@@ieatthighs ok albert einstein

[@ieatthighs]

@@AverageDays learn English

[@txTz411]

Using Shazam since 2017. Really an amazing app...

[@SebastianRojas-uu2cp]

amazing video

[@akshaymurukate7163]

this is most underrated software, I use it a lot.

[@DefenDefault4]

I recently used it last year, also wow I didn't expect it to be there since 2002.

[@soumilghosh5156]

GIVE THIS MAN SUBSCRIBERS

[@i_hope69]

Good video bro

[@mArmelade_69]

that is incredibly cool to be honest

[@ObviouslyASMR]

Nice vid :)

[@the555timer]

Answer to title: most of the time it doesn't

[@tripthongUwU]

Especially if it's meant only for particular audiences, e.g. producers, remixers, and music artists. Fortunately, they started to identify this kind of song since circa 2021 Production music, music meant to be remixed, might throw you songs that remixed them. For example: A Letter 2 My Unborn by Tupac on Shazam and some Arabic music on the Google app music identifier. I discovered the production sample in the original form aka no voices and whatsoever in an unfinished RPG Maker game "The Legend of the Philosopher's Stone" with the filename "Dungeon nine.mp3". I don't know how the game creator knew the production sample Production music are meant to be production secret, I guess. "Your Favorite Martian" seemed to intentionally hide his production music library file names when he talked about a Fortnite song sounds the same to his

[@DavFN123]

I've only had it not work once and it was cause the song was really unpopular, what are you going on about

[@the555timer]

I found that googles voice assistant can search for songs too and it looks on youtube instead of a separate database so it finds more random songs too

[@loveandthunder2928]

Few of the time it doesn't work, most of the time it works

[@jefferyoke-samuel9511]

Great video

[@birbsdigital]

you need more than 3.3k subs

[@JasonXME]

Verizon had their own music identifier back in early 2000’s

[@curmut3772]

keep up the interesting, yet short content

[@AlexLexusOfficial]

and all this happens in the matter of seconds

[@minipli]

cool vid

[@mohamedseghir7703]

You made it look so simple

[@cravenmoorehead69]

google identifies a song much more accurately and faster, giving you similar songs too.. and its been around for a couple of years now. my first choice is google, second is shazam and third is aha music

[@pbilk]

What's Google's tool called?

[@cravenmoorehead69]

@@pbilk you can click on speak to search on normal google on your phone (not chrome) and the will be a button "search for a song". there is also a widget called 'sound search' by google, u can try if any of this works on pc peace

[@ThoughtfullySo]

Google Assistant

[@VibeMusic996]

​@@pbilkI think he's talking about the "Now Playing" feature which is actually pretty handy and works very well

[@fik_of_borg]

Google claims it's done offline, so how does it do it? Does it store all hashes locally?

[@NoOtherOrangeBoi]

Thats cool

[@pixie99]

Cheers😊

[@PianoVampire]

Nice video

[@djmarga4422]

Amazing vid

[@evermorecurious91]

You’re doing good bro..

[@Wmann]

I expected you to have more subs than just 470… Here’s one for you, I love this video!

[@BenjaminWheeler0510]

Signal theory and Digital Signal Processing is one of the craziest domains of math and computer science. So much stuff that is just mind-blowing.

[@thombathomba9188]

cool video

[@bjcprod]

Did I just get Rickrolled?

[@iamdoofus319]

maybe-

[@docholo]

dude rickrolled us all the time of the video

[@morokolibeats]

Bro I looked for a song for 7 YEARS before finding it a month ago 😭😭😭

[@ray_jewelzz]

which song lmao

[@thesolareclipse7847]

@@ray_jewelzz never gonna give you up

[@whoisanarnb]

@@ray_jewelzz darude sandstorm

[@MirceaBene]

thank you, the more i know

[@denismignanelli]

Bro really threw a hasmap at it and it worked

[@colfdralegend]

I like testing if it can detect niche songs, and it does a pretty good job as long as it’s not completely unknown

[@Vincent-Singh17159]

Woah never knew it was around since 2002, I started using Shazam for the first time back in late 2016 after hearing about it in some SilvkiShow life hack video and i still use it to this day.

[@RiotForces]

only 2.31k subs?? bro i thought u had more ur video is better than most people with 100k+

[@mexidraw]

The thing where you call a phone number to ask them to recognise a song reminded me of ZiT! from GTA IV

[@GiyuTomiokaTheOneAndOnly]

I knew hash was involved 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍, thanks that's all i wanted to know.

[@lincolnvance2680]

I though this last night and KZbin is recommending it

[@blurr__99]

Damn, him saying "shazam has existed for longer than most of you have" and then me realizing it was released a month after I was born made me feel so old

[@iamdoofus319]

lmaoooo

[@mahmoudsaidi7201]

thank you

[@blackstormer95]

SoundHound is old af too and can recognize even your humming or whistling

[@captheobbyist6434]

i really wish that shazam had the feature to upload your own audio file and then find the song from it