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Uber charges you for "wait time" after you request a car...which is insane. Not that Lyft is much better, but I've never seen that kind of nonsense with them.
How is it nonsense? Someone is using their time and fuel to get to your location. It's only natural you pay for it.
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It creates a time series of frequencies then checks a db for that same series. A problem that is easily parallelizable. Probably does some filtering first. It's a very useful and clever application, but not that technically challenging. The most amazing feat is they got access to the catalogs of the record labels. I wish someone would do the same thing for commercials on TV. Auto detect the commercial and advance the…
Aren't most commercials sold in 30-60 second blocks?
1)New song is released
2)It starts being "shazamed" by various people - it's becoming trendy
3)Large stores that differntiate themselves by being trendy want to play trendy songs first
4)They pay Shazam to tell them which songs are trendy
5)The stores play them
6)Customers "shazam" those songs in the store
7)Customers view the store as trendy
8)Now four instances have profited: Shazam, the store, the musician and the customers (for having found a trendy song very early on)
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How is it nonsense? Someone is using their time and fuel to get to your location. It's only natural you pay for it.
It feels like they're double dipping. Unpopular as it might be, I'd guess people would be more than willing to pay extra so that they could shitcan this "feature".
Shazam is the one app that has been around since about the birth of the iPhone that honestly still blows my mind in it's capabilities. The fact it can so quickly figure out any song in so many environments is incredible. Call me simple, but I use it almost daily, and it is accurate close to 98% of the time. I absolutely love Shazam's iOS app, and they have done a great job keeping up with UI/UX treads for it over the…
I agree with the lauding of Shazam, but I am interested in your statement "I use it almost daily" -- what for? I've always viewed Shazam as a novelty and have installed and uninstalled it a few random times, but as Jobs would say it seems like a feature not a product.
I'm not the original commenter, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest—they use it to find out what a song is that they hear & like?
Shazam is the closest thing we have to witchcraft. I'm sure plenty of HNers will chime in with "well acktually..." type comments about how they could write it in their basement in a weekend, but to do what it does, as quickly as it does, on the ridiculously enormous library of music that it does is really something special.
Shazam is the closest thing we have to witchcraft. I'm sure plenty of HNers will chime in with "well acktually..." type comments about how they could write it in their basement in a weekend, but to do what it does, as quickly as it does, on the ridiculously enormous library of music that it does is really something special.
Although Shazam is a black box to us consumers, I'm pretty sure its recognition quality dropped drastically in the last 2 years.
What happened 2 years ago that you think affected its recognition quality?
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I agree with the lauding of Shazam, but I am interested in your statement "I use it almost daily" -- what for? I've always viewed Shazam as a novelty and have installed and uninstalled it a few random times, but as Jobs would say it seems like a feature not a product.
This "feature not a product" belief only makes sense if you pretend that the product doesn't provide the answer sought by its primary user and as byproduct produces a truly real-time stream/map of what music-enjoying people are interested in finding out more about. This data would be incredibly valuable to companies trying to market and sell music. Like labels, and now, Apple. Not to mention keeping that data now out…
There is another reply to me that snarkily opines that the average HNer doesn't engage in social events, which is a bit humorous really because a more correct statement is that most people are socializing at social events, not doing inference on background music. I can say that I have never, ever seen another person pull out shazam in public.