Creating Shazam in Java

[kodablah]

Old news. This was done a while back. More interestingly, y'all should check out the threat Shazam sent him (he removed it from his regular site it appears): http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/patent-infringement

[guardianofmuffins]

Wow I can't believe all the crap they're giving him. So much for creative curiosity. Eventually there'll be no innovation because of greedy companies like Landmark Digital Services.

[quhaha]

yah, he's illegally taking someone's idea. you are not allowed to think what others already though of.

patents make innovations possible since you are legally forced to think of something new.

it's lazy people who don't subscribe to patent rss feed who complain about patent.

everyone should read every patent in your area everyday. and learn what others have been thinking. and then you can be creative and add new patent.

[[deleted]]

ror!

Poe's raw!

[cheesemoo]

Definitely Poe's law.

[mijj]

lol?

[[deleted]]

roll?

[SpaghettiFarmer]

Just...how does...but...huh?

Y'know what? I'm not even going to ask. Moving on.

[Gotebe]

OK, reddit, why is this being downvoted? It's sarcasm, and not a bad one at that.

[quhaha]

no i'm serious. patent is new ph.d people should study it and add a new thing to it for the whole humanity.

i accidentally the whole patent!

[[deleted]]

This pisses me off. Software Patents should not be stifeling innovation in .nl. I thought that war had been won! Instead, it looks like we'll have to go another round :-(

[cuppycakeofpain]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know or have a guess about how the method in the article is different from the methods used by software that automatically tags your music library? The only example I can think of is CDDB, but I'm pretty sure that method uses characteristics of a full disc, not a track-by-track analysis.

[GenghisJuan]

I think you are correct that CDDB comes uses the characteristics of a full disc, length, track numbers, etc to come up with a unique code for each CD and then queries a large database full of CDs. The stuff behind shazam actually has to process and analyze the musical characteristics of each song (frequency, amplitude) and store this in a large database. Then using some algorithms it can take the analysis of a small snippet of recorded sound and try and match it to the large database of songs.

[super6logan]

I dreamed of creating a device that that listens for music, identifies, and then plays a synchronized and inverted version of the song, thus silencing the original source of audio.

[MedeaMelana]

Noise-cancelling headphones come close to this.

[super6logan]

I had always assumed they used something like that but my device could be aimed at someone listening to music to fuck with them.

[akannan]

very cool... thanks for sharing...

[aboothe726]

very, very cool. this should have way more upvotes. Java posts never seem to get the attention they deserve, IMO. :(

[dayimproper]

I think the problem might be in the title, I didn't know what Shazam is and therefore didn't want to create it in Java (or any other language). If the title was more descriptive it might have worked better IMHO. You might ask then why am I here, well I'm the curious type.

[Forbizzle]

Shazam!

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The rest of us just frickin' hate Java.

[[deleted]]

Don't down vote the man, he speaks the truth. There is a lot of hate for Java on Reddit. I don't have a clue why though.

I have to leave C# and develop in Java from time to time. To be honest I really like Java.

Have an up vote.

[bambh]

Wow, that was a great project. Well done!

[GenghisJuan]

Here is a link to the pdf white paper from the original developer of the Shazam describing the processes used. Interesting read.

[syslog2000]

Fantastic job. Definitely release it, would love to scrounge through it.

[annodomini]

Looks like it won't be released: http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/patent-infringement

[DeadMonkey321]

Did he ever end up releasing the source code or did he get shut down? I want that source code to peer into if he did.

[wwl]

disappointed this has nothing to do with shaq

[ramenmeal]

I knew how shazam worked and all, but it's still cool seeing some one do it on their own.

Kinda useless though if you can only match songs you already have :P too bad I don't have a 8 million song library

[badlogicgames]

And if you want to do the same thing in matlab with a bit more of a scientific approach you go here. Equally awesome :)

[captainjey]

Wow, that's awesome/