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A coworker of mine shared an experience she had in college a while back. Many years ago, for a course project, she proposed software that would allow you to ta
by j79 16y ago
A coworker of mine shared an experience she had in college a while back.
Many years ago, for a course project, she proposed software that would allow you to tag songs and get information about it. Perfect for identifying that obscure song at a bar. The professor told her, flat out, it was impossible. He explained his reasoning and then suggested she work on another project.
All of this came to light when I showed her Shazam. Her first words were "I KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE!"
- jarek 16y agoCreating Shazam as an undergraduate term project is essentially impossible. Just assembling a sufficiently large database would take longer.
- sukuriant 16y agoIn it's full robust form? Maybe (though I doubt it); however, as a proof of concept with every song in your personal collection? Much more reasonable.
- jarek 16y agoThat's not going to be useful for identifying that obscure song at the bar, is it? The original post is pretty unspecific. Did the professor claim that creating a general system with a large database is impossible? That it's impossible as a term project? That creating a proof of concept system with 3 GB of music from your personal collection is impossible? That simply identifying a song given a part of it and the source file is impossible?
- fanf2 16y agohttp://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/ http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/ http://laplacian.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-shazam-works/ http://laplacian.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-shazam-works/