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Devoxx '11

Meet me at Devoxx 2011

By On August 5, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Algorithms, Java Programming

This year I’ll be presenting at Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium. In my opinion it currently is the best Java conference in the world. It’ll be my first talk in English.

The titel of the talk is: What Shazam doesn’t want you to know.

During the talk I’ll be explaining how Shazam works and [...]

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Patent infrigement (part 2)

By On November 24, 2010 · 18 Comments · In Java Programming, Patent infrigement

After a lot of comments on my blog asking about the code I decided to try getting it released one more time. Thus I mailed Digital Landmark Services again, telling them this is just a hobby project, and will (in its current form) never be a replacement for Shazam. Also, I explained a lot of [...]

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Patent infringement

By On July 7, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Java Programming, Patent infrigement

Some time ago I received the following email about this project.

This scared me a bit, why are they emailing me? I’ve written some code (100% my own) and implemented my own methods for matching music. There are some key differences with the algorithm Shazam uses.

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Music Matching (part deux)

By On June 6, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Other

After a comment on my previous blog entry (about creating a shazam clone) I started tinkering again.

Somebody asked: Could this be used to detect duplicate songs in my mp3 collection!?

That is exacly what I just tried!

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Creating Shazam in Java

By On June 1, 2010 · 241 Comments · In Algorithms, Java Programming

A couple of days ago I encountered this article: How Shazam Works

This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?

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