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Re:Shazam turns 20 by xhevahir on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:37PM (#32523203)
>if it was notes (for simplicity) E,D,C,D,E,E,E,D,D,D,E,E,E is the start of "Mary had a little Lamb"

As far as I can tell these operate on audio, not symbolic music.

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Re:Shazam turns 20 by goldcd on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:28PM (#32527352)
They do (and I said so) - but I couldn't think of an easy way to write that in a post here.
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Re:Shazam turns 20 by plussed_reader on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:40PM (#32523247)
FFT data tends to get quantized, normalized, and counted for analysis purposes.
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