How Shazam Works

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

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  • @pierreuntel1970
    @pierreuntel1970 6 лет назад +7657

    Plot twist: Shazam hired millions of employee sit behind the screen to recognize it

    • @vinitfirke2201
      @vinitfirke2201 6 лет назад +262

      Just like Google makes its employees sit behind search engine curtain according to congressmen eh? (Don't want to bring politics but the debate between congressmen and Google CEO was too funny)

    • @pauldotdll
      @pauldotdll 6 лет назад +30

      *coughts* amazon.

    • @droid16beta97
      @droid16beta97 6 лет назад +32

      I'd love it. You know how sometimes you hear a stranger listen to a rather unpopular song, that you recognize and you're like "DUUDE, I know that song. Wish I could tell them, but that would be weird and awkward. I need someone to acknowledge the fact, that I recognize this song!" Well NOW THEY WILL!

    • @NicolaiWeitkemper
      @NicolaiWeitkemper 6 лет назад +35

      This is what my old neighbor thinks how Google works...

    • @Garry-jj6jh
      @Garry-jj6jh 6 лет назад +6

      @@NicolaiWeitkemper its really how that worked some years ago

  • @Grove332
    @Grove332 6 лет назад +324

    Recognizing whose car is pulling up into the driveway from it's noise or recognizing who's walking around house by the sound and weight of their steps. The Brain is quite amazing.

    • @muzzthegreat
      @muzzthegreat 6 лет назад +10

      And then your dog does it . . .
      I used-to have a diesel, easy recognition for him; and it took him no more than two weeks to get my new car [petrol] sound down-pat.
      I used to have a Mitsubishi 4-cyl and now 20years later I can still tell you a 4G64 is coming.

    • @emreevo8
      @emreevo8 6 лет назад +3

      The cat I used to feed on my street would recognize the sound of my scooter from 100 meters away.

    • @nooranik21
      @nooranik21 6 лет назад +5

      My roommates used to car pool to work each day. I could tell which one was driving the car that day by how they drove up to the house.

  • @bmay8818
    @bmay8818 6 лет назад +1273

    WHAT?! NO WAY!!

    • @codycast
      @codycast 6 лет назад +31

      Bryce Mayall what’s funny is Shazam isn’t even that old. I remember just a few years ago (?) when it came out and I’d show it working to my friends and they were amazed.
      Crazy how fast we go to not being impressed any longer.

    • @Basieeee
      @Basieeee 6 лет назад +5

      And it works really fast.

    • @toebeexyz
      @toebeexyz 6 лет назад +29

      @@angelsv Someone's not had a good day, sheesh

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 6 лет назад

      Me too

    • @bmay8818
      @bmay8818 6 лет назад +31

      @@angelsv Wow, that's a crappy thing to say. My kid isn't lazy, nor does she just sit around watching TV all day. Good luck in life, believing "kids these days" all suck. I'm sure there's no case where something your predecessors found amazing, you thought was just meh, 'cause you're better.

  • @bobbobson9024
    @bobbobson9024 6 лет назад +2812

    2.3 seconds? clearly they didn’t use smash mouth
    “Som....” is all it takes for most of us

  • @richardhudson4649
    @richardhudson4649 5 лет назад +1162

    I don't understand a single thing in this video.
    It is still fascinating.

    • @mrdcon101
      @mrdcon101 5 лет назад +10

      Richard Hudson haha i was thinking the same

    • @lagrivv
      @lagrivv 5 лет назад +53

      I was pretending to understand, until i read ur comment

    • @khazza930
      @khazza930 4 года назад +61

      there are 2 main parts of the video:
      1. Shazam has a database of songs and their fingerprints. When you're listening to a song and ask Shazam about it, it builds the fingerprint from what it hears, and looks for its match in the database. How is the fingerprint built? That's a secret only the Shazam team know, and likely involves a lot of filters and calculations.
      2. How can Shazam search such a big database so fast? It uses this hash to build an index of all songs. So instead of comparing the fingerprint to all 20 million fingerprints in the database, it only has to compare it with maybe 100, or less. Similar to finding a book in a library. You don't go through all shelves and read all book covers. Instead you ask a computer about the book, and it tells you which shelf to look at. Only difference is that the hash does a bit more than this library computer. The hash tells you where the fingerprint would be if it existed, OR where it should go if it's being added now to the database.

    • @cun7sathome
      @cun7sathome 4 года назад +3

      Should of gone to school then.... learn how to learn

    • @mint-o5497
      @mint-o5497 4 года назад

      Richard Hudson reall not that hard to understand if u listen

  • @nightmare5479
    @nightmare5479 6 лет назад +2113

    Oh my. This is jackpot. Another video about music tech. I love this channel.

    • @tylerdurden788
      @tylerdurden788 6 лет назад +4

      Shazam is magic

    • @wiceorc5105
      @wiceorc5105 6 лет назад +3

      They basicially created a miracle but only to realize that the app isnt very useful. You can just ask a dj what is the name of the song. Or most propably you will hear the song played again later day. And who cares about the music when theyre hunting for.. you know well sex lol.

    • @khalidabdulghani
      @khalidabdulghani 6 лет назад +1

      It most certainly is

    • @rohitagarwal9174
      @rohitagarwal9174 6 лет назад

      what are the other music videos please tell me

    • @nightmare5479
      @nightmare5479 6 лет назад

      @@rohitagarwal9174 click on the channel and see his previous upload.

  • @yunus6009
    @yunus6009 5 лет назад +1399

    This had always been in my recommendation

    • @yunus6009
      @yunus6009 5 лет назад +22

      Ok boomer

    • @yunus6009
      @yunus6009 5 лет назад +22

      What is a boomer

    • @yunus6009
      @yunus6009 5 лет назад +22

      Only a boomer will ask this question

    • @aduptuniform2647
      @aduptuniform2647 5 лет назад +72

      Did u just have a conversation with yourself? I am very confused

    • @yunus6009
      @yunus6009 5 лет назад +16

      Yes I had

  • @Russocass
    @Russocass 6 лет назад +1038

    Shazam is great, incredible. But I don't understand why soundhound isn't as recognized as shazam, it basically does the same but you can also sing the lyrics or any melody of the song, even if you do it a little out of tune it will find it. That's just mindblowing.

    • @stephenward2743
      @stephenward2743 6 лет назад +140

      Well Shazam has been around for quite some time, I remember it being on my blackberry back in the day and working almost just as well. I also would imagine that Shazam has a greater pool of songs as its more well known and thus more artists are putting their tracks on the app.
      That being said I checked on the google play store and soundhound has over 100 million downloads so its hardly unrecognized.

    • @whogivesadamnforuser
      @whogivesadamnforuser 6 лет назад +42

      JRussoC For me, the soundhound’s database was not nearly as diverse and immense as shazam’s was. Especially for foreign songs. It was just the circumference ,if you will, of the database that made me use shazam all the tine.

    • @RR-ir6ss
      @RR-ir6ss 6 лет назад +46

      Soundhound sucks ass. It only recognizes popular songs.

    • @aravindr7166
      @aravindr7166 6 лет назад +29

      What about Google assistant?

    • @prieremonte
      @prieremonte 6 лет назад +19

      IMO shazam has better UI than soundhound.

  • @dannydaw59
    @dannydaw59 4 года назад +276

    I wish I could whistle a tune that's in my head to Shazam and have it recognize it.

    • @ahmed38247
      @ahmed38247 4 года назад +13

      i was thinking the same, like why can't i just hum the song and have it recognized.. apparently i need to have the same timbre

    • @Ivy_film
      @Ivy_film 4 года назад +18

      @@ahmed38247 you can do that with soundhound

    • @ahmed38247
      @ahmed38247 4 года назад +3

      @@Ivy_film oh rly? ty

    • @kubiborglar
      @kubiborglar 4 года назад +4

      there is a website where you can tap the rhythm and it shows 10 similar songs. Worked for me every time. Also you can choose is it classical music or non-classical

    • @ThylerXD
      @ThylerXD 4 года назад +2

      @@kubiborglar oh?? do you know what that website is called? i have this song that has been stuck in my head for months now so it might help

  • @priyanshurai9614
    @priyanshurai9614 4 года назад +813

    And here I thought:
    if(song_tosearch == song_fromdatabsse)
    print(song_fromdatabase);
    else:
    print("check ur network")

  • @yuri0r
    @yuri0r 4 года назад +15

    As a cs student this was very fun to watch. I paused at every bit of the video where a problem was introduced and thought a little bit about it. And was happy to see that I mostly got very close to the presented solution. :)

  • @RealEngineering
    @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +1110

    Was hoping to fix the pronunciation of "timbre", as a Patreon supporter (William Leu) pointed it out. I am currently extremely sick after getting food poisoning while filming in Africa, and couldn't get a decent take to fit in. On a positive note, we got great footage and I can't wait to show you what we filmed.

    • @Haji84
      @Haji84 6 лет назад +85

      Real Engineering wish you get better soon

    • @wesleysull
      @wesleysull 6 лет назад +8

      This is one of your best videos yet. And that is saying something with your library!

    • @willdepue1071
      @willdepue1071 6 лет назад +2

      Nationwide delivery (Zipline?) ?

    • @lcs_crr
      @lcs_crr 6 лет назад +1

      Get better soon! Cannot wait

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +9

      @@willdepue1071 someone has been watching my instagram stories

  • @Flint404
    @Flint404 6 лет назад +3785

    This episode is brought to you by RUclips forcibly shoving it into your recommendations.

    • @hybby
      @hybby 6 лет назад +206

      Good job RUclips. Education over entertainment.

    • @Alex_-oc4bt
      @Alex_-oc4bt 6 лет назад +34

      @@hybby good job RUclips, subtle advertising over entertainment.

    • @adeepta9344
      @adeepta9344 6 лет назад +8

      That's why I love RUclips...

    • @dragonballZbigBang
      @dragonballZbigBang 6 лет назад +2

      What a joke of a video. Pretty sure Shazam doesn't use hashtable. Wish I could block channels on RUclips

    • @ShonHarito2
      @ShonHarito2 6 лет назад +23

      @@dragonballZbigBang why u so sure?

  • @kinangeagle133
    @kinangeagle133 4 года назад +16

    Nothing beats searching the lyrics and seeing a song with a title far from what you searched, then you learned 3 months later that that was the song you were looking for

  • @MadMiff
    @MadMiff 3 года назад +8

    This is a perfect example of how information should be presented on youtube. The Irish accent is just so well delivered and easy to follow combined with the visual information. There are a lot of tubers out there who should learn from this example.

    • @mariotaz
      @mariotaz 2 года назад

      Check out Matthewmatosis and SuperEyePatchWolf lol. Exact definition of this

  • @PaperGunner722
    @PaperGunner722 6 лет назад +1721

    Okay cool but why cant I just go "do dooood do do dod o do" to find that one EDM song i heard from 10 years ago and dont remember it's beat.

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +478

      You actually can in Soundhound I believe

    • @tylerdurden788
      @tylerdurden788 6 лет назад +146

      @@RealEngineering apparently there's an app for everything lol

    • @omkarchauhan7675
      @omkarchauhan7675 6 лет назад +184

      Search result: darude sandstorm.

    • @Phenomenon4253
      @Phenomenon4253 6 лет назад +79

      Probably because you don't have perfect pitch to reproduce the song notes 'thus creating an incorrect "fingerprint"

    • @riesbezemer4028
      @riesbezemer4028 6 лет назад +34

      Toto - Afrika

  • @aido179
    @aido179 6 лет назад +183

    Delighted to have played a part in this.

    • @aido179
      @aido179 6 лет назад +16

      @@dosmastrify Co-Writer: Aidan Breen

    • @hwinangkoso
      @hwinangkoso 6 лет назад

      Aidan Breen lol

  • @NextGenAcademyEducation
    @NextGenAcademyEducation 4 года назад +137

    How RUclips Works:
    It recommends good videos 2 years later.

  • @cosmicreciever
    @cosmicreciever 6 лет назад +180

    I love how he pronounces timbre 'timber' even though when it first comes up it literally has the IPA pronunciation right there.

    • @Mrbasscarrot
      @Mrbasscarrot 4 года назад +1

      Yep!

    • @BrynTru
      @BrynTru 4 года назад +10

      He’s working hard to remove all the frenchy’ness from English. I’ll give him points.

    • @watchingperson5357
      @watchingperson5357 4 года назад +3

      I'm curious, did y'all learn to read/taught the existence of IPA pronunciation in school, and are you in e.g. UK, USA, NZ, Canada, Australia? I just tune out every IPA pronunciation text whenever I see it, never even heard/realised its importance/ prevalence until recently when I saw an overseas relative use it.

    • @bamsuth9650
      @bamsuth9650 4 года назад

      @@watchingperson5357 yep i do

    • @ronnyxas
      @ronnyxas 3 года назад

      @@BrynTru what frenchy’ness ?

  • @mrwhite6529
    @mrwhite6529 5 лет назад +80

    Damn These RUclips guys know everything

  • @adityabanerjee_1899
    @adityabanerjee_1899 6 лет назад +33

    The animations are on spot, great great work on the animation guys
    Brilliant.

  • @maximiliansirzen6340
    @maximiliansirzen6340 4 года назад +3

    I’m really blown out by the fact that it recognizes classical pieces if you yourself play them in a normal way! I tried that in a few pieces like Chopin and it works!

  • @kezzu5849
    @kezzu5849 5 лет назад +4

    I've been watching your channel for years, but as a developer this is definitely the most intriguing video I've seen on your channel. Bravo 👏🏿

  • @RaquelFoster
    @RaquelFoster 4 года назад +3

    As a software developer I think it’s pretty awesome to see an amped-up dumbed-down video about the Fast Fourier Transform and hash functions. When people ask me how something works, this is the part where I notice they’re wishing they didn’t ask me.

  • @dem4xed
    @dem4xed 5 лет назад +5

    I was asking this myself many times, but never really researched it. Thank you so much ☺️

  • @oreolamp5676
    @oreolamp5676 6 лет назад +1791

    How is Rick Astley’s ”Never gonna give you up” NOT the most recodnizable song of all time?

    • @CrazyFunnyCats
      @CrazyFunnyCats 6 лет назад +20

      Oreo Lamp 😹and Vanilla Ice ice baby ! 😷💩

    • @b2spirit35
      @b2spirit35 6 лет назад +48

      Or megalovania

    • @criticalhard
      @criticalhard 6 лет назад +21

      or stfu with that dead joke.

    • @SuryaTejaKarra
      @SuryaTejaKarra 6 лет назад +44

      or We Will Rock You by Queen?

    • @pepkin88
      @pepkin88 6 лет назад +78

      @@CrazyFunnyCats No, because Ice Ice Baby is too similar to Under Pressure by Queen.

  • @evaristegalois6282
    @evaristegalois6282 6 лет назад +271

    You should make an episode on how to engineer a good *RUclips Rewind* because we're in short supply of those

    • @drazgul9403
      @drazgul9403 6 лет назад +3

      Would be great for April fools day

    • @gwinyaiejchipunza7168
      @gwinyaiejchipunza7168 6 лет назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/xaYAItb0v68/видео.html best review yet.

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 6 лет назад

      Glad I haven't seen it

    • @Red-Magic
      @Red-Magic 6 лет назад

      I don't get why people care about those. I'd rather watch videos I know I'll like, thank you very much.

    • @halasimov1362
      @halasimov1362 6 лет назад

      Step 1: Start with a new platform!

  • @FutureNow
    @FutureNow 6 лет назад +358

    Okay, but how does ShamWow work?

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +130

      Some questions are best left unanswered

    • @FutureNow
      @FutureNow 6 лет назад +19

      @@RealEngineering The world will never know.

    • @willdepue1071
      @willdepue1071 6 лет назад +5

      Black magic

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 6 лет назад +12

      It has me saying "WOW!" every time I use it.

    • @Red-Magic
      @Red-Magic 6 лет назад

      www.shamwow.com/SHMWOW/6.0000/Index.dtm?otsid=9912

  • @8BitHate
    @8BitHate 4 года назад +6

    I love how causally you explain modulo operation in such a simple way 😂🤣

  • @houssemhammami7816
    @houssemhammami7816 6 лет назад

    I swear 3 days ago or so i was thinking of how shazam works but i forgot to search on it on youtube and now randomly your video popped up on my recommendation list , I subscribed immediately

  • @awabqureshi814
    @awabqureshi814 6 лет назад +36

    Huh, always wondered. Thanks!

  • @NevinWilliams71
    @NevinWilliams71 6 лет назад +37

    When I first got my iPad, quite a few years ago, now, I was curious about Shazam, and how much data it was sending back to its servers to identify a song. I set up a packet sniffer on my wifi network, and monitored just the amount of traffic to and from my iPad while using the Shazam app.
    I just tried it again; it's more difficult to discern exactly what traffic is Shazam, and what traffic is part of the exchange to bring up album info and other tie-ins, however, from the time I pressed the Shazam button to getting a response, my computer sent a total of 1176 bytes of data out. If that was pure audio data,, would only contain an audio sample of a small fraction of a second; certainly not enough to provide any clue as to the music that was playing.
    The video explained nicely how such a small amount of data could possibly match a record in Shazam's database.
    Thanks!

    • @vishalshete5820
      @vishalshete5820 4 года назад +3

      Means so mutch computation done on our local device to reduce data.
      I mean classification of data.
      From my student of data scientist perspective

    • @tech-hilfeportal6611
      @tech-hilfeportal6611 4 года назад

      Why are we such nerds (yes I am a nerd)

  • @moboxgraphics
    @moboxgraphics 6 лет назад +11

    I can't wait to buy the book, "The Motion Toolbox". Gotta get through "Three days in Eli" first

  • @magillanz
    @magillanz 4 года назад +1

    what gets me is how Shazam gets the right version of a song not just the song. Many songs have been covered many times but it always comes up with the right version.

    • @tranarchist6335
      @tranarchist6335 4 года назад +1

      Usually yes, but sometimes it completely screws up and thinks it's some random remix of the song

  • @kwstakis10100
    @kwstakis10100 6 лет назад

    INCREDIBLE video...As a computer science engineering student, some point i thought about how this could work but i never looked for it..And now youtube recomended it..You earned a subscribe..(My thoughts about how it could work were close)

  • @BeachLookingGuy
    @BeachLookingGuy 6 лет назад +264

    It's easy... Darude - Sand Storm

    • @gregorwellard349
      @gregorwellard349 6 лет назад +5

      No one wants that shit anymore 🤧😪

    • @BeachLookingGuy
      @BeachLookingGuy 6 лет назад +12

      C'mon, somebody had to say it 😂

    • @imreerdos2372
      @imreerdos2372 6 лет назад +12

      Old but gold 😄

    • @kawaiisana3912
      @kawaiisana3912 5 лет назад

      Swedish House Mafia - Greyhound.
      *The best edm ever made*

    • @grimblegrumble
      @grimblegrumble 4 года назад +10

      That would be a brilliant Shazam april fools joke; every search comes back as 'Darude - Sandstorm'.

  • @162manoj
    @162manoj 6 лет назад +13

    As a new computer engineer, the way the solved this problem blows my mind! I always wondered how song recognition apps work so freaking fast. Thanks!

    • @FilterChain
      @FilterChain 6 лет назад

      you will learn indexing sometime soon if you do SQL and stored procedures

    • @ladislaskrstic8328
      @ladislaskrstic8328 6 лет назад

      I use shazam a lot. And it is indeed so freakin fast. Like, shazaaaam! And there you go

    • @thatunnamedredshirt
      @thatunnamedredshirt 6 лет назад

      Really? I just spent most of the time triggered over his explaination of hashes.

    • @cornelmasson4610
      @cornelmasson4610 5 лет назад

      It's not just the algorithm, there's also an enormous amount of computing power behind it, massive clusters of servers searching in parallel.

  • @A2ZStudioPrague
    @A2ZStudioPrague 4 года назад +6

    Wow, this video actually does explain it quite understandably!

  • @Abitibidoug
    @Abitibidoug 4 года назад +1

    Wow, that's a very good explanation. I've always wondered how this program works since starting to use it almost 3 years ago. With my electrical and electronics background, I had no trouble understanding the 3D spectogram and the simplified fingerprint. So far so good. It got harder to understand with the hash functions (no, not the kind you smoke) but it's obvious by now it's looking for certain patterns in any song. It's another example of using fancy high tech algorithms to simplify data like those used used to compress audio or video. I'm absolutely amazed that there are people smart enough to figure these algorithms out and how to make them work!

  • @danielmccarville225
    @danielmccarville225 6 лет назад

    If there was an award for best RUclips channel, it would go to “real engineering.“Fascinating, interesting and easy to understand.

  • @Onionbagel
    @Onionbagel 6 лет назад +94

    Short Explanation: Shazam is the acronym of six immortal Gods, (Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury). Just shout "Shazam" out in public and a bolt of lighting will strike you, granting you the power of superhuman strength, speed and agility, and the ability to fly. Also, it's all magic based, even Superman struggles against it.

    • @josefmuller6070
      @josefmuller6070 6 лет назад +5

      >Achilles
      >Immortal
      He died when he got a sepsis from getting an arrow into the back of his foot. What a loser.

  • @andresluukas1922
    @andresluukas1922 6 лет назад +293

    >Puts IPA of "timbre" on screen
    >Still says "timber"

    • @yuvs0
      @yuvs0 6 лет назад +31

      made me want to burn my ears :/

    • @HyperDash
      @HyperDash 6 лет назад +19

      Came here to comment this.

    • @joeljames2829
      @joeljames2829 6 лет назад +2

      @Andres Luukas ,
      Real Engineering already commented for the reason behind it.

    • @joeljames2829
      @joeljames2829 6 лет назад

      @@HyperDash funny how you don't see his comment, when you scroll down the comment section

    • @HyperDash
      @HyperDash 6 лет назад +1

      @@joeljames2829 I saw that after I made my comment. My apologies.

  • @napynap
    @napynap 5 лет назад +5

    I've always thought the tech that Shazam uses is the most amazing thing on my phone. Now I know why. Thank you for the video!

  • @Dave-ct1jk
    @Dave-ct1jk 5 лет назад

    This was your best transition to your sponser yet. Good job

  • @Onetwistyboi
    @Onetwistyboi 6 лет назад +2

    Wow.. I always figured they matched soundwaves to a database, but there's so much more to that. Amazing video

  • @mtbrain1
    @mtbrain1 4 года назад +43

    OK then how does SoundHound work because with that you can even hum or get the words wrong

    • @Pulkit__7
      @Pulkit__7 4 года назад +6

      Intersting, maybe some different approach

  • @oldred9122
    @oldred9122 6 лет назад +23

    There's a whole episode of Married with Children about Al Bundy trying to figure out the name of a song he heard. How did people survive back then?!

  • @ZachBillings
    @ZachBillings 6 лет назад +25

    I have wanted to know for so long how Shazam works. I've been using it since the days when you dialed a number to use it on a flip phone.

    • @TeslaHaxz
      @TeslaHaxz 6 лет назад

      God, i feel old now

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 6 лет назад

      Holy shit, that's cool! (i haven't used it, surprisingly) I never looked into it, thought it was an advertising dump or something, just from seeing those commercials where you can check out a "funny" advert in shazam..... Those caused me to not look into it.

    • @ZachBillings
      @ZachBillings 6 лет назад +3

      @@volvo09 No it's a great app. I've never been great at remembering song names or even artists, so when I hear something I like or recognize that I want to find later, I Shazam it.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 6 лет назад

      @@ZachBillings awesome, thanks! I stink at remembering songs too, so I'm going to download it now.

    • @andyrharris
      @andyrharris 6 лет назад +2

      And it cost 50p per phone call, imagine most people being willing to spend 50p on an app these days, let alone a phone call!

  • @moracamposricardouriel3172
    @moracamposricardouriel3172 3 года назад

    My god! I spent almost a week trying to find the relationship between hash tables and the Shazam algorithm and I' couldn't until this video. Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

  • @gustavosaliola
    @gustavosaliola 6 лет назад

    At aprox. 8.42 my mind just melted. For that reason, here goes my Global Hug for all the programmers in the world.
    Excelent video. Was the answer to a chat with friends some time ago.

  • @marcooosbibendorsht1334
    @marcooosbibendorsht1334 6 лет назад +430

    This isn't an airplane

  • @wunder1385
    @wunder1385 6 лет назад +154

    Real Software? Engineering

    • @oilybrakes
      @oilybrakes 6 лет назад +1

      Well, I leaned most of his explanations during my studies of electrical engineering.

    • @nicky_tdbp5353
      @nicky_tdbp5353 6 лет назад +22

      Hotel?
      Trivago

    • @tormenmashi_
      @tormenmashi_ 6 лет назад +1

      @@nicky_tdbp5353 damm you beat me

    • @Sephirot120
      @Sephirot120 5 лет назад

      @@oilybrakes That's because hes only talking about the design of the solutions in the video, not a single line of the code is shown in the video, but programming this solution is another complex challenge itself, that's where Software Engineering comes into play

  • @danward1070
    @danward1070 6 лет назад +201

    *not sponsored by Shazam*

  • @niccolowalrond6189
    @niccolowalrond6189 6 лет назад +1

    Two things, this video was very well done and explained well and that was the best sponsor spot and segway I have every seen.

  • @jadenfernando
    @jadenfernando 6 лет назад +2

    This is an awesome video. Appreciate the time you took for the research and the animations🙌🏻

  • @benitollan
    @benitollan 6 лет назад +52

    What a coincidence I was just wondering about this yesterday

    • @Halzion_
      @Halzion_ 6 лет назад +1

      Lol me too

    • @ezioauditore5616
      @ezioauditore5616 6 лет назад +1

      I always wonder about this everytime i see my shazam app

    • @benitollan
      @benitollan 6 лет назад +1

      @@ezioauditore5616 I knew hashes had to have something to do with it, but I wondered how it was possible to create viable hashes out of sounds that in real life are influenced by a lot of factors (ambient noise, remixes, different sound systems with different sound signatures, different smartphone microphones, etc)

    • @jeelanhusain1440
      @jeelanhusain1440 6 лет назад

      I was wondering about this all my life

    • @mc_lovin363
      @mc_lovin363 5 лет назад

      Benito Llan Matos I wondered the same thing too

  • @0xssff
    @0xssff 5 лет назад +57

    -"How Shazam Works?"
    -SHAZZAAAM! That's how it works..

  • @AllPileup
    @AllPileup 6 лет назад +261

    At first I think of that DC hero...damnit

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +55

      Not gonna lie, I am hoping that I get a high SEO ranking for Shazam and get some views that way.

    • @shibnathroy106
      @shibnathroy106 6 лет назад +5

      @@RealEngineering you are very honest. Good

    • @rowan-paul
      @rowan-paul 6 лет назад +1

      @@RealEngineering should've changed the Shazam logo to Shazam in thumbnail

    • @salabhsg
      @salabhsg 6 лет назад +1

      @@RealEngineering You weren't wrong. You got my attention.

    • @purab1552
      @purab1552 6 лет назад

      😂😂

  • @melchiortod29
    @melchiortod29 4 года назад +1

    When mentioned hash, it blew my mind. I'd never have expected to find hash over here! That's crazy! They are geniusses these guys!

  • @reddragon7408
    @reddragon7408 6 лет назад +1

    I usually share this kind of videos so people can learn about cool stuff and also support this channel that had taught me a lot.

  • @user-lynKx
    @user-lynKx 5 лет назад +15

    When I press that button, all I do is hope that the artist put their song on Spotify.

  • @alptklu
    @alptklu 5 лет назад +50

    How Shazam Works
    until minute 4: history of humankind

    • @edulira
      @edulira 4 года назад

      Glad someone said it xD

    • @yopo654
      @yopo654 4 года назад +1

      Gotta hit that 10 min mark

  • @jackhu7967
    @jackhu7967 4 года назад +7

    the “two” objectives of a hash function you mentioned here are both literally the same thing. Evenly distributing hashes is the same thing as minimizing collisions. Something you didn’t mention explicitly (even if it’s relatively obvious) is that hash functions will always return the same output given the same input, which is the most important factor that makes them useful.

  • @Phippe
    @Phippe 6 лет назад

    Had this question for so long, but never bothered to search for an answer. Great video, keep it up!

  • @shakya00
    @shakya00 6 лет назад

    This channel is gold, quality and vulgarization of high level !

  • @ANTH0NY.VII.
    @ANTH0NY.VII. 5 лет назад +23

    Thing is, Shazam still struggles when listening to my music (edm) so I have to try it like around 5 times before it actually gives me a match.

    • @IntenseVLT
      @IntenseVLT 4 года назад +3

      Maybe you’re helping it learn?

    • @xCarbonBlack
      @xCarbonBlack 4 года назад

      @@IntenseVLT you have to record a particular frequency, synth or sound on EDM songs to find it instantly

    • @vivekjain1667
      @vivekjain1667 4 года назад +1

      Try google instead. Open your assistant and ask it, "What's this song"?

    • @kissindzerkiss
      @kissindzerkiss 4 года назад +1

      @@vivekjain1667 exactly

  • @race5586
    @race5586 6 лет назад +84

    Tripaloski
    Tripaloski
    Tripaloski
    Tripaloski

  • @azzaisin
    @azzaisin 6 лет назад +49

    Why can nobody pronounce timbre.

    • @Zeekmeister101
      @Zeekmeister101 6 лет назад +9

      Probably because oh how it's spelled. Idk tho, seems like a likely reason

    • @ladislaskrstic8328
      @ladislaskrstic8328 6 лет назад +4

      Is it tim-bre, tim-bræ, tim-brá, or tim-ber?

    • @aravindr7166
      @aravindr7166 6 лет назад +6

      It's tam-ber right

    • @ZuluGod1
      @ZuluGod1 6 лет назад +6

      It even had the pronunciation in the screenshot of the definition. It killed me.

    • @cabooseplaysgames2072
      @cabooseplaysgames2072 6 лет назад

      it should be said as "Tamber". Gotta love musical terms!

  • @nicoprocessor
    @nicoprocessor 6 лет назад

    I've been searching for a clear explanation for a while, thank you very much, great job!

  • @SusilRamarao
    @SusilRamarao 6 лет назад

    Thank you Real Engineering. I was searching for this for a very long time.. I was wondering how that app works and engineering behind it. You showed me the basics of how fingerprint works. Thanks for the video!

  • @Joostinonline
    @Joostinonline 6 лет назад +9

    3:30 "It's a treaty graph."

  • @benitollan
    @benitollan 6 лет назад +15

    0:07 Introduction: Opening, scene in a pub listening to a song and opening the shazam app.

  • @keco185
    @keco185 6 лет назад +16

    How is an anchor point reliably determined? That’s the part I never got. How can the phone ensure that the first point it uses is the first point in song snippet stored in a db

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +12

      That is explained in the "coding geek" reference in the description. It was a bit of a long winded and boring explanation, so I left it out of the video.

    • @HamzaKhan-us1cd
      @HamzaKhan-us1cd 6 лет назад +4

      I'm a 2nd year software engineering student and I didn't understood shit in this video... Now I'm depressed by thinking what I'm gonna do with my future xD

    • @mikosoft
      @mikosoft 6 лет назад +2

      This is just a basic concept. I'm pretty sure there's more going on to make sure the pattern is recognized.

    • @keco185
      @keco185 6 лет назад

      Hamza Khan a lot of this stuff will be taught in transforms. CE/EE students need to learn it, it’s possible software engineering students don’t

    • @rujotheone
      @rujotheone 6 лет назад

      Shazam most likely uses DSP algorithms along with the explained hashing.

  • @jaxibsbob6392
    @jaxibsbob6392 5 лет назад

    A quite detailed explanation, but understandable and informative. I am inspired to check out the other videos on the channel

  • @mrlucasftw42
    @mrlucasftw42 6 лет назад

    This is is glorious - I've always been curious about sound - this is whetting my appetite.

  • @JerryC25
    @JerryC25 6 лет назад +16

    1:53 you didn’t give us any time to answer! Lol

    • @kirasmith1147
      @kirasmith1147 6 лет назад +5

      That was the point, people were able to recognise the song and press stop within the time we heard the song.

  • @averysmith9462
    @averysmith9462 4 года назад +5

    This video is so interesting. Also just so y’all know, timbre is pronounced like tamber

  • @Fungamerplays
    @Fungamerplays 4 года назад +4

    0:13 i think you left some of your personal notes in the script for the subtitles

    • @LuminousLead
      @LuminousLead 2 месяца назад

      Haha that's really funny XD

  • @colinpovey9560
    @colinpovey9560 6 лет назад

    I learned to program computers back in the 1970's. I consider Shazam the most amazing piece of software I have ever seen. It's speed and accuracy astound me every time I use it.

  • @DQHW
    @DQHW 6 лет назад +1

    Amazing how complex it is, yet how fast the app manages to do it.

  • @goobot829
    @goobot829 4 года назад +9

    1:51
    Well, RIP your monetization

  • @fa.h.
    @fa.h. 6 лет назад +4

    I don't use Shazam, I just use Google Voice/assistant whatever it's called now. When it detects music you just press the note button and then it does it's thing

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 6 лет назад +35

    *_RUclips Music wants to know your location_*

  • @rushilv4102
    @rushilv4102 6 лет назад

    This video was brilliant! All the visuals helped a lot.

  • @balajisriram6363
    @balajisriram6363 6 лет назад

    You answered a question that hit me from day one. Thanks a million

  • @katya_lysenko
    @katya_lysenko 5 лет назад +3

    Hope you have a great day ! ❤️

  • @metrabyte03
    @metrabyte03 5 лет назад +9

    “Timber” 🌲it’s pronounced “tAmber”

  • @Knight_Astolfo
    @Knight_Astolfo 6 лет назад +6

    How big is your library that they have a shelf for each book? Does each shelf have a librarian? Can I apply for that job? I can sleep under my desk and shave in the bathroom!

    • @Knight_Astolfo
      @Knight_Astolfo 6 лет назад +2

      @K.D.P. Ross Let me introduce you to something called 'humor' ...

    • @Knight_Astolfo
      @Knight_Astolfo 6 лет назад

      @K.D.P. Ross Hey dude. I know you're trying to be smart. You're very smart and we're all proud of you. *applause*

    • @Knight_Astolfo
      @Knight_Astolfo 6 лет назад

      @K.D.P. Ross Bored, huh? Can't help you. Analytics don't agree with your opinions. I'm sorry you didn't like my dumb joke. Nothing I can do about that. All I really can do is laugh at you. You're way funnier than I'll ever be. Jajajajajajaja.

  • @tarangvora4065
    @tarangvora4065 5 лет назад

    Hats off to u guys & those who made Shazam 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @GenjiPrime
    @GenjiPrime 5 лет назад +1

    1:51 yeah all thanks to you, now that song got stuck in my head for the rest of my day 😂🤣

  • @atlas7309
    @atlas7309 4 года назад +6

    2:46 Oh. Just like wood...

  • @EtsuMatsuya
    @EtsuMatsuya 6 лет назад +6

    For some reason, I thought it was EMF - Unbelievable. ... I guess I have failed as a human. Maybe the Machines should take over.

    • @luismg2130
      @luismg2130 6 лет назад

      It just means we're older, mate. Machines will take over, don' worry.

  • @wasilur6492
    @wasilur6492 4 года назад +9

    I remember the song "you suffer" made by napalm death.

  • @benzigarjs8607
    @benzigarjs8607 4 года назад

    As A programmer and a musician,
    I loved this video, ,, 😍😍

  • @AndreiDragosPopescu
    @AndreiDragosPopescu 5 лет назад

    Excellent video. Simple and precise. Really enjoyed it. Fabulous work! Keep it up!

  • @deneth3310
    @deneth3310 6 лет назад +6

    Doesn’t the pixel already do that built into the os

    • @R111-q2v
      @R111-q2v 6 лет назад +1

      Evil Gummy Bear yes

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  6 лет назад +13

      Yeap, but I don't particularly want to give google permission to actively monitor my microphone

    • @deneth3310
      @deneth3310 6 лет назад +2

      Real Engineering oh, I was just wondering since it looked like you had a pixel 2, i think?

    • @nantzstein3311
      @nantzstein3311 6 лет назад

      @@deneth3310 .

    • @SuperSiggiboy
      @SuperSiggiboy 6 лет назад +1

      Yes, but the Shazam app launched in 2008, ten years ago. It wasn't as great as today at first, but I remember it being brilliant when I first tested it around 2010

  • @x_tomasu_x5452
    @x_tomasu_x5452 4 года назад +10

    Plot twist:
    its a guy in a closet who was forced to learn every song

  • @shahzadjalil
    @shahzadjalil 5 лет назад +5

    sony's TrackID app used to do the same trick almost over a decade ago.

    • @s1d3k1ckRO
      @s1d3k1ckRO 5 лет назад +1

      Was going to Google that. Forgot the name.

  • @besknighter
    @besknighter 6 лет назад

    Up until building the fingerprint I could figure out, but the clever way of using the fingerprints and plugging it as input to a hash function? That caught me off guard and makes so much sense!

  • @NithinSunnyKrishna
    @NithinSunnyKrishna 6 дней назад

    Highly insightful video for the brief overview of 'Hashing' concept! Nice! :)