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Identifying music in audio files and streams on AWS

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The article describes a process for identifying music in audio files and streams using song fingerprinting on AWS.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • How audio is stored as waveforms and spectrograms
  • The song fingerprinting technique to extract unique audio features
  • Implementing song fingerprinting on AWS using services like S3, Lambda, and Aurora Serverless
  • Identifying songs in stored audio files by uploading them to an S3 bucket
  • Identifying songs in live streams using AWS Elemental MediaLive and SNS/SQS notifications
  • The accuracy of the solution, which is around 96% for audio recordings longer than 10 seconds
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits of using AWS for audio fingerprinting and music identification
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