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Re:Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say by cpeterso on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:23PM (#15883340)
There was a company from the first dot-com boom called Big Champagne the crawled Napster and other file-sharing networks to discover what new songs were popular. They're now owned by Ticketmaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigChampagne

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Re:Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say by jchanimal on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:01PM (#15884216)
My team wrote a web crawler once to answer the same question about MP3 blogs. Fun era.
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Re:Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say by JBlue42 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:39AM (#15884747)
Blast from the past that. I feel like I heard about them in The Industry Standard or Wired at the time.
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