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Re:How does Shazam work? (2022) by teeray on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:56PM (#38540597)
Depends what the model targets. If I gave this problem to a bunch of musicians, they’d be pulling out features like the key, tempo, meter, chord progressions, any distinctive riffs or basslines, etc. Those are the things hashes could be built from and would be more information-dense than samples of the particular recording.

Using a model to deconstruct a song like that might enable the ability to recognize someone playing the opening bars of Mr. Brightside on a piano in a loud bar as well as its drunkest patrons.

Re:How does Shazam work? (2022) by namtab00 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:37AM (#38541682)
you couldn't recognize anything ambient like, let's say, Loscil
Re:How does Shazam work? (2022) by sdenton4 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:20AM (#38541903)
Hard times for Indian classical music, as well...
Re:How does Shazam work? (2022) by gowld on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:10AM (#38544813)
"Features" was Pandora's original design (Music Genome Project). IIRC you can still see it in the UI in how they describe songs.