On: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

[abhishekjha]

Wow. Is there any open-source equivalent for this. Would love to see the complexity of the job as it scales and the workarounds in actual code?

[umaar → abhishekjha]

For the data maps which the Medium article displays, I used: https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps initially. If there's interest, I can try to get my scripts onto GitHub. They:

a) Include Node.js scripts for converting raw big data (the raw Shazam stream) into something usable for visualisations.

b) Contain Node.js scripts & utilities for automating the creation of maps focussed on particular geographic locations.

c) Contain client side JavaScript for displaying all the individual map tiles onto an interactive map & Google Maps API code to query for places of interest (like a club, shopping center) which may explain heavy usage of Shazam in a particular location.

For the globe, which is unrelated to the datamaps, here's the original WebGL globe which someone did in 2011: https://github.com/cedricpinson/globetweeter

The Wikipedia edits version of the globe I did: https://github.com/umaar/wiki-globe - happy to do a write up of this if people think it'll be useful.

[drewmol → umaar]

Thanks for posting this! I've always wanted to build an audible ad-blocker that can mute/replace the audio and analyzing a background/silent feed to restore volume. Unfortunately all product paths I can forsee will surely lead to targeted replacement ads, played at higher volume