WhoSampled, based on the popular website of the same name, helps you connect the musical present to the past by displaying the songs that are used as parts of other songs. You can search for samples ...

Spotify has acquired the community-run database tracking sampled music, WhoSampled, the company announced Wednesday. The streaming service had also shared the news as part of its Wednesday blog post ...

‘We are much more than a glorified Excel spreadsheet. It’s an experience,’ says founder Nadav Poraz I’m here to warn you off WhoSampled. Seriously, don’t use the website, and don’t download its iPhone ...

WhoSampled rolled out an updated version of its mobile app on Thursday featuring Shazam-like music recognition technology to identify samples in surrounding audio. By Lilly Milman WhoSampled rolled ...

WhoSampled was acquired by Spotify, unlocking deeper music discovery tools while keeping the platform’s identity. WhoSampled was officially acquired by Spotify, marking a pivotal shift in how ...

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Among its recent changes, Spotify has acquired music database WhoSampled, a database for finding samples, cover songs, and remixes. On Wednesday (Nov. 19), WhoSampled announced that while it will be ...

London-based startup WhoSampled answers music’s most frustrating question, as we wrote back in 2009: Where DO I recognize that song from? In a nutshell, the service scans the music on your device to ...

The streaming giant also announced it would be expanding its song credits and introducing factoids to its "Now Playing" view. By Chris Eggertsen Spotify has acquired the song sample platform ...

If you're a music junkie (especially in the electronic realm), there's a good chance that you've used WhoSampled to identify song samples, covers or remixes. So far, though, you've had to know the ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...