The Magic of Music Matching
The first time I used Shazam (the music matching app) it felt just like that: pure magic. The app shortly listens with the microphone and tells you which song is playing. As a programmer I generally have a pretty good understanding about what happens behind the scenes, in this case however I was absolutely gobsmacked. After a weekend of studying, reading scientific papers and experimenting and coding: I had a working Shazam clone written in Java. During this talk Ill reveal what Ive learned and what algorithms and tricks being used.
