THE SHAZAM MUSIC RECOGNITION SERVICE

摘要

People are routinely exposed to music in everyday environments— car, home, restaurant, movie theater, shopping mall—but are frustrated by not being able to learn more about what they hear. They may, for instance, be interested in a particular piece of music and want to know its title and the name of the artist who created it. They may want to buy a digital download of the song or a ring-tone. To address these limitations, my colleagues and I at Shazam Entertainment have developed a query-by-example (QBE) music search service that enables users to learn the identity of audible prerecorded music by sampling a few seconds of audio using a mobile phone as a recording device.