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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by henrik_w on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:24AM (#18067094)
Here is a good write-up on how it works:

http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by vernie on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:56AM (#18067463)
Here's some code that strips down a song to its Shazam-able fingerprint:

https://github.com/jvbalen/soundofshazam/blob/master/sound_o...

And an example output (try Shazam-ing it!):

https://soundcloud.com/sample_noise/shazuffle-ii-shazam-me

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by saganus on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:41PM (#18069801)
And here's a Java project with similar functionality (although I'm not sure it will have near the same accuracy). [0]

He also got some legal threats just for publishing code he created himself.

[0] http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by QasimK on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#18067489)
Absolutely fascinating, it covers so much breadth too!
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