how does google play music match identify songs?

[androidfan1x]

google play music matching feature, how does it identify the songs, using ID3 tag or does it actually scan the audio of the song like what shazam or soundhound do?

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[friedtators]

It uses math that those boys are real good at to match them

 

[GMJeff]

Probably like shazam.

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