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Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by scarface74 »

oddevan wrote: post #45
WillKirkby wrote: post #22

How long until they pull the Android version?

Start the timer when Apple Music for Android stops getting updates.

I don’t think Apple Music for Android was a play for Android users. It’s more of away not to be at a disadvantage when Apple is trying to sell a Family Plsn for Apple Music to a family of mixed Android/iOS users.

Back in the day, people didn’t realize the competitive advantage it gave MS to have a version for Macs. They could sell into large enterprises that may only have 5-10% Macs with a cross platform offering. Their competitors couldn’t.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by drewmol »

umaar wrote: post #287
abhishekjha wrote: post #282

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Wow. Is there any open-source equivalent for this. Would love to see the complexity of the job as it scales and the workarounds in actual code?

For the data maps which the Medium article displays, I used: https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps initially. If there's interest, I can try to get my scripts onto GitHub. They: a) Include Node.js scripts for converting raw big data (the raw Shazam stream) into something usable for visualisations. b) Contain Node.js scripts & utilities for automating the creation of maps focussed on particular geographic locations.…

Thanks for posting this! I've always wanted to build an audible ad-blocker that can mute/replace the audio and analyzing a background/silent feed to restore volume. Unfortunately all product paths I can forsee will surely lead to targeted replacement ads, played at higher volume

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Post by on_and_off »

thinkloop wrote: post #281
on_and_off wrote: post #237

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It uses an offline database of songs to make this feature work, without uploading your surrounding sounds.

Seriously? Shouldn't that be gb's of data? If anything would be cloud dependent, I thought this would be it.

Turns, out most of us are boring and predicable and storing prints for 10 000 songs is enough to recognize most of the songs people are listening to.

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Post by r3bl »

snappieT wrote: post #236
dylan604 wrote: post #148

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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…

+1 on that usage. If only Soundcloud/Mixcloud integrated it so you saw the current track while the mix played - likely avoided for copyright deniability?

Mixcloud actually had that. Then they've switched over to only displaying the current track. Then they've made some shitty version of music recognition similar to Shazam, which simply does not work for this use case (every single time it detects something, which happens almost never, it disregards that it's an edit/bootleg/remix of a song and displays the original instead).

In fact, as an uploader, you can still see it (I don't know why), but not as a listener. As an example, here's a screenshot of me viewing my own upload: https://imgur.com/a/REpxOgx

Editing tools still allow you to post accurate timestamps: https://i.imgur.com/gZabJUx.png

There's also a browser extension that modifies Mixcloud pages to display the tracklists again, but they're useless since no uploader has an incentive to go through the painful process of entering timestamps, and that process is now crowdsourced anyway thanks to 1001tracklists.

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Post by aneutron »

diminoten wrote: post #177
colordrops wrote: post #42

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You can bet they will kill integration with Spotify though. And maybe no more Android support. I'll take ads over that.

Google Play Music has a Shazam feature that's just as good (though I haven't rigorously tested it, it's never failed me), so lack of Android support is no real loss.

In your region. I don't even have Play Music in mine.

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Post by doh »

Sorry to hijack this post, but if anyone is interested in content recognition, we built one of the largest reverse search engines for video/audio [0] and are always looking for skilled engineers to do more.

I think our scale makes things very interesting. We currently index over 20 hours of video every second and to date we've indexed over 11.5B videos.

Feel free to reach out to me directly at r@pex.com.

[0] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search...

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Post by tokyodude »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

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…

does Shazam also sync up lyrics? I havent used Shazam in years since I discovered Soundhound. Soundhound has a better ux imo and it also brings up the lyrics for popular songs and they are synced to the music as in they scroll by at the right place like karaoke

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Post by benatkin »

mbrd wrote: post #214
sp332 wrote: post #99

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This URL only works if you include the period at the end (which HN's URL detector does not).

Too late to edit my original comment but this may work better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc%2E

Each of those three looks half-assed (or half-apped). I guess Shazam would be Apple's first serious Android app, except probably not. :P

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Post by vemv »

mcphage wrote: post #109
vemv wrote: post #105

Although Shazam is a black box to us consumers, I'm pretty sure its recognition quality dropped drastically in the last 2 years.

> 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?

I guess they changed the algorithm or tweaked its parameters.

One specific thing I recall is that more false negatives started popping up - which is bad over UX (vs. no matches at all).

The change was (perceivedly) strong enough for me to stopping using Shazam.

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