[Timmah]

It creates a time series of frequencies then checks a db for that same series. A problem that is easily parallelizable. Probably does some filtering first. It's a very useful and clever application, but not that technically challenging. The most amazing feat is they got access to the catalogs of the record labels.

I wish someone would do the same thing for commercials on TV. Auto detect the commercial and advance the DVR by its exact duration

[icebraining]

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials

[h1srf]

> I wish someone would do the same thing for commercials on TV. Auto detect the commercial and advance the DVR by its exact duration

They've had it for years now. I was skipping commercials on my HTPC back in 2007-ish. I think the older Tivo's also had this ability.

[akhilcacharya]

Aren't most commercials sold in 30-60 second blocks?

[Timmah]

Yeah. So if you skipped 60 seconds on a 30 second commercial you'd cut into your program. Hence the identification requirement.

[dylan604]

That's why TIVO (or whichever DVR company) had the skip 30 seconds button. If it was a 60, you hit it twice. However, they also sell 15 second blocks. Now, it's just fast forward at ludicrous speeds.