btw m indian and its hard to find guys like you here. \m/

thanks

Simon

Thanks for your code, i got it working great! i just have a question regarding non-mp3′s

Im now recording radio samples using a USB radio receiver. I get the sound data in a byte[] array and then do exactly the same thing where i store the hashcodes and then try to match it to a recording ive done using my iphone. This time it doesnt work.

My feeling is that the mp3 has been normalized (had compression applied to it) and this might be the difference. I couldnt think of any other differences as they are both (the mp3 and radio sample) converted to wav format (16bit)

If i compress the radio sample do you think that itll work? or what do you think the difference is between a mp3 converted to 8-bit byte array and the radio data coming in in this format too?

is het mogelijk om je java code of een deel door te mailen ofzo want het lukt me maar niet om met de huidige code het aan de praat te krijgen :s.
De bedoeling zou zyn dat men de titel terug krijgt en via de api van youtube automatisch het clipke van youtube van dat liedje krijgt te zien.

If it’s patented, then this thing has been published by Shazam themself. That’s the whole point of a patent, publishing something for the rest of the world to see. In exchange for the publication you receive a monopoly on the thing you patented (for some limited amount of time). Everybody can go to the EPOs or USPOs website, get the patent document from there and reimplement the thing (if you can’t reimplement it, or it describes something trivial, the publication may not hold as a patent).

The other thing is: Copyright doesn’t work on patents. Copyright works on specific work of literature. For technical designs you have a similar protection, though it’s not a copyright per se (things differ in various legislations, for example in Germany you’ve to register a “Geschmacksmuster” if you want to protect for example some lamp design). But your code is your very own creation. In fact you as it’s author hold its copyright. Shazam can’t claim a single line of code as their copyrighted material. Patented maybe. But not copyrighted.

Last but not least: In the EU you can file software patents, but they can not be applied here. It’s basically just something you file here, so that you can patent your stuff in the US as well and make some money there.

So if I’d receive such a stupid letter, my reaction would be, to shove it down the sender’s throat with a explanation how the copyright and patent system works, and that they apparently should go back to law school, because they definitely didn’t pay attention when this came up.

Thanks
Semaj

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