Shazam Audio Fingerprinting Alternatives

The cluster focuses on open-source alternatives to Shazam for music identification using audio fingerprinting techniques, with discussions of tools like AcoustID, MusicBrainz, Beets, and explanations of how such systems work via perceptual hashing and spectrogram analysis.

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MusicXmatch MusicBrainz musicbrainz.org e.g opengenus.org youtu.be AudioTag last.fm ismir.net ND2 music song fingerprinting hashes songs database search detection fingerprints audio

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app4soft Jan 21, 2021 View on HN

Search for alternatives to Shazam (proprietary)

m-p-3 Aug 19, 2022 View on HN

I'll also plug AcoustID from MusicBrainzhttps://musicbrainz.org/doc/AcoustID

walterbell Aug 18, 2014 View on HN

Is it identifying song names by file metadata, binary fingerprints, audio fingerprints?

hakkikonu Nov 7, 2020 View on HN

does song data on your db or you're requesting to musicbrainz instantly?

shmerl Oct 8, 2015 View on HN

I once tried to identify a piece of instrumental music and tried AudioTag, but it couldn't find anything. It would be useful to have a huge global music database with some recognition algorithms for that. Is there anything like that around?

gw67 Dec 6, 2022 View on HN

Is this powered by MusicXmatch or is a competitor?

nkg Oct 21, 2017 View on HN

I am thinking about spectrum comparison, like shazam does

johnneville Aug 2, 2024 View on HN

I think musicbrainz supports this https://musicbrainz.org/doc/AcoustID

tptacek Jun 6, 2011 View on HN

It seems to be using perceptual hashing to match tracks; you'd need to find actual crappy versions of the songs you want.

dang Dec 5, 2023 View on HN

Related. Others?How Shazam Works (2003 Paper) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299853 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)Creating Shazam in Java (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530056 - Aug 2022 (36 comments)Shazam turns 20 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/