Having said that, we have to admit it’s not exactly true.
How Shazam Can Recognize Millions Of Songs A single song three to 4 minutes long is normally about 4 megabytes of data, and Shazam is able to identify your song out of terabytes of information. That makes it unbelievable to realize that it sorts information so quickly and is able to provide a result from just a few seconds worth of a song. There are millions of songs in Shazam’s database. While we’ve come to take it for granted, within seconds we’re able to see all the information we need.Īnd if you really like what you heard, you can download it too! Shazam drives about 5% of all music downloads – around 400,000 per day. That includes the title, artist, album and year – even the lyrics. Shazam is able to “listen” to a small part of a recorded song through the microphone on a cell phone or other device, and provide the basic information you’d be interested in. And since 2008, we’ve been turning to Shazam to aid our memories and answer, “What was that song?”And nearly flawlessly, we’ve been able to get a quick and accurate answer that tells us not only the title, but also the artist, the lyrics and the year. Maybe it’s an old favorite that we just can’t place, or it could be something brand new that we want to hear again. We’ve all been there – in the store, in the car – we just catch a song and we just can’t place it.
