Well i am trying to do a kind of shazam to test some audio programming in java and i really need some tips to do it, is it possible to get data from the microphone or just from audio file?

the program will only care about the format the file is in, and that'll depend on what library you use on the java side to read the files.

microphone records into a particular file format (typically wav), and all you need is to convert that file format into the one your library expects.

but what do you mean by fingerprints?

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 5 2012 03:52pm

well what i really want to try is just what shazam does, fingerprint are the "key points" on an audio file so i can compare it with other audio files, i know how to read files but now how to read audio files to get this kind of information.

I suggest googling for a library that already does this. If you can't find one, then there's probably going to be an article out there that explains the algorithm for getting it and you can write your own library if you have the time. It's possible that it'll be easier in a language other than java.