While most of us think hard about spending $2 in the App Store, Apple has splashed about $400M to buy music matching service Shazam. While the app is really popular, the tech behind it is really the goose that Apple wants, as it adds the golden egg of AI to their Siri and Apple Music baskets.
Android: If you find yourself enjoying every song you hear at a bar or club but don't want to pull out your phone to identify every song, Shazam can now keep listening in the background for as long as you'd like.
Shazam is undoubtedly a very cool app. But for fans of electronic music, it's unfortunately less useful than it could be. With tracks overlapping with other tracks, the time in which you sample your audio could be key to getting a result.
