soundfingerprinting

There is also this .NET project: https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

Solo founder at Emysound[1]. Started 10 years ago as an open-source project, building an algorithm for audio fingerprinting. Added a commercial offering, selling storage built specifically for audio fingerprints, targeting enterprise customers. Since the offering was too technical (it's hard to sell solutions to problems that are too narrow and domain-specific), pivoted to more "business-oriented problems". This last year's pivot is a chance to finally grow. Running a business in single-player mode is, at times, too stressful. Aside from the technical part, which I very much enjoy, I need to wear marketing, sales, and customer support hats. [1] - https://emysound.com [2] - https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

The OP said elsewhere they are using this[1] library, which allows you to specify minimum seconds to match, so you'd presumably set it to match 20 seconds or whatever minimum length podcast commercials usually are. Most other audio fingerprinting libraries I've seen allow you to specify min/max time, as well. HTH. 1. https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting Is the library. It was the first thing I found and it seemed to do the job. I’m not a .NET guy so it’s implemented as a CLI tool that takes a wave file as input and spits out a list of timestamps. Sharing the code would mean getting into the business of publishing an ad blocker which is not something I personally have the bandwidth for. It’s also far from my finest work, being something that I banged out in a weekend. Happy to answer other questions about it, though!

My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance. 1. Read more books, less social media/news. 2. Spend more time with my friends. I haven't seen some of them IRL for more than a year. 3. Exercise more, play tennis with my daughter, spend quality time with my kids. 4. Spend more time with my parents. They've become visibly older in the last years, an observation that scares me. 5. Focus more on marketing for the businesses that I've bootstrapped. All the shiny new features that are developed are not as important as getting more people to use your product. 6. Promote open-source project to 1k GitHub stars[1]. I know it isn't very meaningful, but it's just nice to receive a bit of recognition from the community. 7. Enjoy life, don't stress about all the little things th

I've been working on SoundFingerprinting [1] for almost ten years now. Its Shazam for developers. First 8 years I worked mostly during my free time and weekends. 2 years ago, I decided to monetize the storage for the fingerprints. There is a MIT licensed version of the storage [2], and a commercial one [3], which is fine-tuned for thousands of hours of audio or video content. If you are an enterprise customer, you will essentially need it at some point, and will most probably have no problems paying for it. Overall I invested a lot more time in it than the monetary reward I received. I don't complain since I enjoy working on audio/video fingerprinting and databases. On top of it, the pay at this stage is on par with a regular SE job with the bonus of working on things that I enjoy. I can call it a bootstrapped business now. In some sense,