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 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ The word "Windows" is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: "White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass..."