Update on Library Funding: We are very appreciative at the Wood County District Public Library (WCDPL) for the support we receive through state funding, a local levy since 2011, and the generous support of the Friends of the Library as well as the Library Foundation.
Shazam (service) Shazam is a mobile app for Macintosh, personal computers and smartphones, that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee.
Here is a brief overview of how the fingerprinting works: 1  Shazam creates a spectrogram of the tagged music. Spectrogram is a 3d graph in which the x-axis denotes time, the y-axis denotes the frequency, and the color intensity represents the amplitude of a certain frequency. Here's an example of a spectrogram of a song -.