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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 avip »

chrisweekly wrote: post #81
avip wrote: post #32

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Well acktually, in my admittedly limited experience, Shazam is not capable of recognizing any music at all without the digitized metadata encoded with sound files. I've tried multiple times to sing very popular songs to it. It never recognized them. You could attribute it to my poor musical skills (and I'm fine with that), but 100% of humans would recognize the songs in < 10s timeframe.

Try SoundHound for singing

I have. It outperforms Shazam hands down for this use case. But still very limited.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by kidsnow »

gregknicholson wrote: post #82
watty wrote: post #52

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I don't mean to take away from Shazam (because I too was amazed when I first used it) but the Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays. Not really "magic" how it works but still pretty amazing that I can pull the phone out of my pocket any time I hear a song I like and immediately see the band/title.

> Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays. Is it on by default? Cos that sounds really creepy.

Coming soon, Pixel will be able to recognize over 1 million individual voices in your area! Using our enormous database of phone calls to your area code and individualized location tracking, you will be able to find out everything about a person simply by holding your phone near their voice!

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by eh78ssxv2f »

ascagnel_ wrote: post #143
afterburner wrote: post #139

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In a completely free market, corporations are free to distort economic and labour policy so that poor unemployed people are desperate to get any job they can, regardless of how poorly it pays. This is why minimum wage and other laws exist. See also: race to the bottom.

To add to this: if workers are underpaid relative to the cost of living in their area, they'll likely end up on some government assistance program. Effectively, Walmart/Uber/etc get to double-dip -- they pay their employees less than a living wage, and based on the US tax structure, don't have to pay for the government assistance programs that their employees end up needing to make ends meet.

> To add to this: if workers are underpaid relative to the cost of living in their area, they'll likely end up on some government assistance program.

But that was already the situation before Uber came to the market? For all we know, driving Uber might have moved some of the people less dependent on the government assistance programs.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by zwily »

ProAm wrote: post #97
gregknicholson wrote: post #82

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> Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays. Is it on by default? Cos that sounds really creepy.

Shazam is also on by default [1] , so they are both creepy [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-kee...

The Mac app is, which I didn't even know existed.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by libria »

gnulinux wrote: post #120
vernie wrote: post #111

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Pedant baited.

Why can't I delete comments in HN? If from the responses to my comment I learned that I add nothing to do conversation, I want to be able to delete my comments. Am I missing something?

You don't have to, the votes will gradually adjust comment visibility based on its perceived (de)merit. Besides, an unpopular comment doesn't mean it's incorrect, e.g. the content might be useful but the tone irritating.

It was informative to myself at least.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by jakobegger »

kodablah wrote: post #114
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…

> still blows my mind in it's capabilities. Just to jog people's memory, patent threats were sent to others doing similar things [0]. Not sure if that represents Shazam or not, but if so, they'll fit in perfectly with Apple. 0 - http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/

I thought Apple only went after big companies that copied their design?

I've never heard of Apple threatening individuals in the Open Source community -- am I missing something?

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by kryogen1c »

alex_duf wrote: post #159
kryogen1c wrote: post #127

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I don't understand this logic generally and in this case it makes even less sense. 10 years ago, Uber literally didn't exist. How, in any way, is Uber forcefully underpaying it's employees/contractors? People flocked to drive for Uber; where is the oppression here? This is the same "Walmart doesn't pay its workers and destroys local businesses argument". People work there, and people shop there. Walmart didn't make a…

That's assuming there's an infinite supply of jobs. When you're in financial difficulty - say your 0 hour contract doesn't bring enough money to pay the bills - you'll take whatever terms and conditions Uber is giving to you. Because you need to fulfill your basic needs. I don't think that many Uber drivers are doing it by choice, they just don't talk about it to avoid bumming clients and getting a poor rating. I'd l…

> That's assuming there's an infinite supply of jobs.

Not only did I not assume that, the exact opposite is true.

Uber _just_ created all of their jobs; they didn't used to exist. Everyone started working there because they wanted to. It's valuable to them to spend their time driving. It's not like Uber forced closed other companies at a 1:1 ratio and force hired their workers for less.

These are all voluntary transactions.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by S_A_P »

Shazam is one of those apps that has truly changed my life. I still remember as a teenager times where I heard a song on the radio or a mix show and missed the name of it. I have purchased entire albums thinking they had a song I liked and have been WRONG. Now I can let my phone figure it out over a noisy background like a bar or restaurant and it still knows what song I am tagging. This app is one that truly feels like magic. Even almost a facade later.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by dazzawazza »

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…

I frequent mostly heavy metal pubs and for the last 5 years neither shazam nor sound hound has detected a single song for anyone near me. Complete crap. We've been using the ancient technique of asking the DJ on the way to the bar.

Re: Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

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Post by chrisseaton »

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #137
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #66

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A shame that uber and the whole gig economy is so shit, circumventing basic employment rights and both minimum and living wages. I mean I like the basic idea and I agree that the taxi business needed the disruption, but it's opened the gates to people working well below a living wage because there's nothing else. That is, there's plenty of people that are willing to work below minimum wage because it's the only thing…

In Germany, I used an uber-like app, having the same tracking and reputational semantics, but it hailed actual taxis. very nice.

Whys that better than Uber though?
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