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Regarding the concern in the HN thread about lawyers:

Maybe I’m a bit naive here, but isn’t the Shazam magic sauce the database and not the method?

Like anyone with a borderline pass of a CS degree can tell it’s basically a multiband moving FFT sample window. And to add credence to that, it was literally one of the first modem smartphone apps—there’s barely anything clever about it whatsoever.