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Google Now natively supports song detection in surroundings. It is also pretty good at it, and Google will do it passively without ever needing to open it as an app. I used Shazam a long time ago, so dunno how it had changed, but it certainly isn't a novel idea.
Google Now won't detect music for you outside the US (Shazam does)
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As a DJ constantly looking for tracks to add to the collection. I listen to streaming music pretty constantly. For individual tracks with all of the metadata, the artist/track name info is provided. For listening to other DJ mixes, you just get the DJ name and mix name. Shazam tells me the specific track. I also use My Shazams as a potential mix list. If I have an item in My Shazams, it caught my attention for some r…
> As a DJ constantly looking for tracks to add to the collection. I listen to streaming music pretty constantly. For individual tracks with all of the metadata, the artist/track name info is provided. For listening to other DJ mixes, you just get the DJ name and mix name. Shazam tells me the specific track. So a pretty narrow demographic for the feature though...
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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…
I mean a feature in a sense that it seems (although I assume I wrong and thus am asking) like something that one uses extremely rarely and offers limited utility. I have used Shazam a few times, and each time quickly install, use it, and remove it. I would have used it more if I could just ask Siri or Ok Google what a song was. There is another reply to me that snarkily opines that the average HNer doesn't engage in…
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.
Here is a good write-up on how it works: http://coding-geek.com/how-shazam-works/
He also got some legal threats just for publishing code he created himself.
[0] http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/
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> This is why minimum wage and other laws exist. This is not a settled question in economics. The idea that minimum wage laws help the poor is at the very least debatable.
I would be interested in a counterargument because I am having trouble coming up with one myself.
Also, inflation. When everyone is making at least $15 /hr then that $15 means less than it used to. All costs of goods go up to match the new supply of "wealth". Burger flippers make $15 /hr but burgers now cost $10.
In more meta terms: manipulating the market is never easy if it's possible to do successfully at all.
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I can't speak for who you're replying to, but I find myself using it at restaurants, bars, and public locations where music is playing, as well as friends' cars, and other social gatherings. I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.
I don't go out much, but when I do, most music I've experienced seems to be tolerable at best and ear-assault at worst. I can only think of maybe 2 or 3 times in the past decade where I've heard music in a public location and was interested enough to want to know what song it was.
Behold, the average HN user I was referring to
I like to say Siri, shazam this and it works great. Wish there was a way to add it to Notes after it Shazams so I can remember it for later.
I agree a drawback is there is no history. I take a screenshot of the results.
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I can't speak for who you're replying to, but I find myself using it at restaurants, bars, and public locations where music is playing, as well as friends' cars, and other social gatherings. I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.
They're also rare for anyone over 30 to care about (if not the situations themselves, what some random soundtrack to them is). Give it time...