It really blew my mind when Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> >signal. The patented Beat Munging algorithm looks at the energy in
> 
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Danger Will Robinson!

There's always more than one way to skin a cat and there is always more than
one single algorithm for achieving a given task.

It would also be interesting to see if this patent post-dates Eric Schneirer's 
paper titled "Using bandpass and comb filters to beat-track digital audio". 

This is dated Dec 1996:

        http://sound.media.mit.edu/~eds/beat.pdf

Erik
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