[atlas_shrugged]

Ive always wondered why there is only 1 shazam. I was under the impression the algorithm/patent was just licensed from another company. Why havent people cloned this app? Also why arent the shazam geo charts more detailed ie by city/neighborhood or location. Would love to see what songs djs are playing at a location even if im not there. Right now the geo charts are very high level (only major cities)

[zekica]

https://musicbrainz.org/ existed at least from 2003, and it does a similar, although a less impressive job.

There are other apps such as SoundHound, and even some virtual assistants have the same feature.

[piperswe]

The actual audio fingerprinting/music identification project associated with MusicBrainz is AcoustID (https://acoustid.org/). It's a separate project that happens to be well integrated with MusicBrainz.

[FabHK]

I used to use Soundhound (used to be Midomi), until Shazam was integrated into iOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundHound

[halostatue]

SoundHound also has/had the hum-to-identity that is apparently present in Google’s offering now.

[thrdbndndn]

Hmm, I didn't know Midomi and Soundhound is the same company.

[cannam]

The Shazam algorithm was genuinely novel and invented by one of their founders. They patented it to great effect.