cursor-education/how-shazam-works

How Shazam Works materials

• http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

• fingerprints a comprehensive catalog of music, and stores the fingerprints in a database

• fingerprints a 10 second user sample of audio

• time-frequency graph (Spectrogram)

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram
  • axis is time
  • y = frequency
  • need to find example of "pure tone" & "white noise"

• identifying frequencies of "peak intensity."

• https://github.com/toonketels/Notes/blob/master/how-shazam-works.md

• http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/

• https://www.toptal.com/algorithms/shazam-it-music-processing-fingerprinting-and-recognition

• http://gizmodo.com/5647458/how-shazam-works-to-identify-nearly-every-song-you-throw-at-it

• http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

• https://soundcloud.com/sample_noise/shazuffle-ii-shazam-me

• https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1mdb08/how_do_apps_like_soundhound_and_shazam_work_is/