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No no no, Tuneprint was well before that. By 2004 we were LONG gone. Shazam didn't show up until I think years later.

And I might be confusing them with another group but I thought, at the time, they were doing some goofy hash of the highest energy Fourier components -- a source of entertainment in our office. ;-)

I think Geoff had the vision and algorithm from the 90s as part of an ISEF project (!?). We had funding in 2001, when we got the real world go-to-your-car-and-get-a-cd and then we identify it ... using the audio signal alone.... demo working.

With a corpus of hundreds of thousands of songs. Positive match in less than 2 seconds.

Sadly, in 2001 there's no market for such whizbang amazing tech.



> Sadly, in 2001 there's no market for such whizbang amazing tech.

Shazam only launched one year after that, maybe the problem was in the marketing not the market itself?




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