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What made you to pick Chromaprint? Also why did you pick Scala over lets say Kotlin?

I love the idea that you pick a project and re-implement it (or its bindings) into another language in order to learn it. That's how I usually do it, but never picked a very large project, usually I end up reimplementing some basic utils or config reader/reloader or something similar.

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I had a few reasons for picking Chromaprint. I was interested in building a media player with Scala (still working on that on-and-off). I noticed that Python seemed to be a more popular language for this type of thing and was frustrated that some key libraries I wanted to use, particularly this one, are available for Python but not on the JVM. The more I looked into Chromaprint the more it intrigued me; I wanted to understand how it works and in a way set the algorithm free as it's almost become a standard for audio identification. I found a few reimplementation attempts in other languages on GitHub but couldn't get any of them working, so I guess I saw it as a challenge, you could also call it a rabbit hole. Aside from that, I was looking for an excuse to use Scala in a project. Kotlin looks interesting too and I'll hopefully get the chance to work with it someday, I can see that it is probably easier to pick up and might be a better choice for a big team - but Scala seems more faithful to functional programming principles and I find the style more elegant.

All makes great sense. Well good job!

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