On: You can't do that

[jarek]

Creating Shazam as an undergraduate term project is essentially impossible. Just assembling a sufficiently large database would take longer.

[fanf2 → jarek]

http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/ http://laplacian.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-shazam-works/

[sukuriant → jarek]

In it's full robust form? Maybe (though I doubt it); however, as a proof of concept with every song in your personal collection? Much more reasonable.

[jarek → sukuriant]

That's not going to be useful for identifying that obscure song at the bar, is it?

The original post is pretty unspecific. Did the professor claim that creating a general system with a large database is impossible? That it's impossible as a term project? That creating a proof of concept system with 3 GB of music from your personal collection is impossible? That simply identifying a song given a part of it and the source file is impossible?