Mastering Spark for Data Science

Building a song analyzer

However, before deep diving into the recommender itself, the reader may have noticed an important property that we were able to extract out of the signal data. Since we generated audio signatures at regular time intervals, we can compare signatures and find potential duplicates. For example, given a random song, we should be able to guess the title, based on previously indexed signatures. In fact, this is the exact approach taken by many companies when providing music recognition services. To take it one step further, we could potentially provide insight into a band's musical influences, or further, perhaps even identify song plagiarism, once and for all settling the Stairway to Heaven dispute between Led Zeppelin and ...