Music-recognition software
In recent years, Apple has quietly bought some of our favourite apps. It owns the weather app Dark Sky and is in the process of integrating it with its own weather widgets, it bought the reading app Texture to create Apple News, and it also acquired the music recognition app Shazam.
We’ve been using Shazam for years to recognise songs, and because we’re bad people we’ve occasionally used it on our Apple Watch during too-difficult pub quizzes (ahem, only kidding). But we mainly use it as a force for good, to identify and save the great music we didn’t know about. Our Apple Music and Spotify libraries would be much poorer without it.
Shazam works, Metallica’s or Cardi B’s to know what the song is because you recognise its unique audio. Shazam does the same thing, but in a much more detailed and effective way – and it can do it by listening to any part of the song.
