Regarding the concern in the HN thread about lawyers:
Maybe I’m a bit naive here, but isn’t the Shazam magic sauce the database and not the method?
Like anyone with a borderline pass of a CS degree can tell it’s basically a multiband moving FFT sample window. And to add credence to that, it was literally one of the first modem smartphone apps—there’s barely anything clever about it whatsoever.
Regarding the concern in the HN thread about lawyers:
Maybe I’m a bit naive here, but isn’t the Shazam magic sauce the database and not the method?
Like anyone with a borderline pass of a CS degree can tell it’s basically a multiband moving FFT sample window. And to add credence to that, it was literally one of the first modem smartphone apps—there’s barely anything clever about it whatsoever.