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		cpeterso on Dec 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say 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

jchanimal on Dec 9, 2017 | [–]

My team wrote a web crawler once to answer the same question about MP3 blogs. Fun era.

JBlue42 on Dec 9, 2017 | [–]

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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