This is really cool. Imagine a map of this across a city, being able to see what different areas tend to listen to. I imagine you'd find some surprising and not-so-surprising things.
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#12Nice idea - it'd be interesting to do some stats on matching accuracy, eg:
September 29, 2024 6:53 PM
La Banda Del Carro Rojo
Los Tigres del Norte
but bonus points for picking up that Virreinato de Nueva España vibe.
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Who exactly is being surveiled here? How is their privacy being affected by this? This device is not surveilling anyone as far as I can tell. It's logging music that's being played in public in its vicinity. It's not tracking individuals, it's not recording faces. When someone does something in public, they sort of lose the claim/right to privacy, because they are doing it /in public/. If they wanted privacy they sho…
If you select a title, you can play the full recording that led to the song being recognized. It's not just the song metadata that is recorded and uploaded to the website, but all the captured audio.
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#14This is really cool. Imagine a map of this across a city, being able to see what different areas tend to listen to. I imagine you'd find some surprising and not-so-surprising things.
Like where's the Yacht-Rock district and is Trap-House actually played near any trap houses, etc?
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#15I spent too much time on TikTok, because I got confused how a "bop" spotter even worked.
Yes, I'm quite upset about the repurposing of "bop" to be offensive, it was a good word and I liked its old meaning.
For anyone who doesn't know, 'bop' to gen Z is a derogatory term for a sexually active woman, it basically means 'slut'.
Redefining existing words is something that really irritates me, particularly when it's used to attack women.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who exactly is being surveiled here? How is their privacy being affected by this? This device is not surveilling anyone as far as I can tell. It's logging music that's being played in public in its vicinity. It's not tracking individuals, it's not recording faces. When someone does something in public, they sort of lose the claim/right to privacy, because they are doing it /in public/. If they wanted privacy they sho…
If you select a title, you can play the full recording that led to the song being recognized. It's not just the song metadata that is recorded and uploaded to the website, but all the captured audio.
Ah I did not realize that. But again - if you have issues with your public statements and activities being, well, public - then you probably should not be doing these things in public in the first place.
Nobody's being tracked here, I'm not aware of some data model being built up, of specific songs played by specific individuals, with time and date and location being attached to it.
If you want to shout out your banking login on the sidewalk while you are playing a song out loud, then I guess that's on you and you can't be unhappy about the fact that this thing recorded you.
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#17Nice idea - it'd be interesting to do some stats on matching accuracy, eg: September 29, 2024 6:53 PM La Banda Del Carro Rojo Los Tigres del Norte links to the captured street noise that matched .. and I (perhaps others can) cannot hear the asserted "match" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wjz9L0UOhE but bonus points for picking up that Virreinato de Nueva España vibe.
You can faintly hear the accordion near the end of the recording.
I don't like that it shares the recordings though. It doesn't add much value and it's a privacy violation, even if it's legal.
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#18I'm nervous about the battery being at 91%...is it not plugged into a constant source of power?
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#19I'm nervous about the battery being at 91%...is it not plugged into a constant source of power?
"It's solar powered"
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#20I'm nervous about the battery being at 91%...is it not plugged into a constant source of power?
> It's solar powered, …