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by csmpltn 686 days ago
It's:

(1) deriving a simple fingerprint from the FFT of the audio signal

(2) simple indexing

(3) simple similarity search

You need the signatures of all music on earth for this to work though ;)

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> You need the signatures of all music on earth for this to work though ;)

Not that difficult with a Spotify subscription. It will take some time, though.

Would-be Neil Young fans will be left wanting if Spotify is the only reference.
He's back... are you talking about his archive? https://open.spotify.com/artist/6v8FB84lnmJs434UJf2Mrm
Oh, I didn’t realize he came back. I googled and only found reports of him leaving (I don’t use Spotify).
>all the music on earth… I would presume that adding a searchable fingerprint to every torrent link would do it