News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm. Parent comment

Re:Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm by sh1mmer on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:15PM (#1498005)
Hasn't MusicBrainz.org being doing this in the Open Source for a long time? At least longer than I personally remember knowing about Shazam at all. All of their code is some variant of GPL.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm by Jun8 on Friday July 09, 2010 @10:49AM (#1500776)
AFAIK, MusicBrainz just relies on metadata associated with a music file and its length. It doesn't actually derive an audio fingerprint from the music, like Shazam does.
[ Parent | on HN ]