Out of curiosity is it possible to prevent shazam like app from detecting maybe by adding noise or any technique ?
Producers/DJs manage this one by just not releasing their music or edits for ages if ever.
How does Shazam work?
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Re: How does Shazam work?
#32I feel like it does not work well. Shazam struggles to recognize music in real life environments that have some background noise, even with a lot of time. It’s much worse than the built in music recognition Google’s phones have, for example.
Re: How does Shazam work?
#33Might be the best visual explainer of Shazam original audio fingerprinting algorithm from the 2003 paper (I guess they´ve switched to ML models at some point?)
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#34Well, my latest guess is: not at all.
It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly.
Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam totally failed?
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#35Tangential. This is a cool website, so cool that I tried to subscribe to it in my RSS reader… and it didn’t work.
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Re: How does Shazam work?
#36Well, my latest guess is: not at all. It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly. Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam t…
Yeah Shazam is mostly useless for songs that aren’t in the streaming apps, I’ve found. but not entirely useless! It sometimes matches me with stuff that’s only on YouTube.
Re: How does Shazam work?
#37There's an algo called dynamic time warping (DTW) and is very often overlooked. My wild guess would be is at play @Shazam.
Ayyy I used DTW to track bots on a certain social media site. They tend to act in herds so DTW helps smooth out delayed, repeat actions.
Is a brilliant algo, and also works for multi-dim data. U can choose different distance functions - still works. Perhaps Dijkstra-shortest-path level significant for the robotic/ai era.
Re: How does Shazam work?
#38Well, my latest guess is: not at all. It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly. Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam t…
Also useless on older music. I have used it to no avail for movies and old TV shows.
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#40Cepstrum mentioned