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 ...

WhoSampled scans your iPhone's library and reveals the samples that powers the songs on your handset. WhoSampled helps you connect the musical present to the past by highlighting the song snippets ...

The app WhoSampled just released an update that can make anybody a music historian. It now features helpful new technology that can completely digest a song’s samples, remixes and cover history. Read ...

If you’re a music fan, here’s a site that you could lose yourself in for hours. With sampling (using clips of other people’s songs as part of a new song) commonplace in modern music, London-based ...

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can ...

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 ...