system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does the technology in song-identifying apps like SoundHound and Shazam work?
gpt
I believe MP3 encoding algorithms convert sound waves to Fourier transforms. These are much easier to database and then Shazaam performs fourier transformation on the song you are "listening" to and compares to the database... or something of that sort.