Guess who is heading to the Mission today to play my fav songs!:D
Love projects like this
Bop Spotter
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#183How do people sleep with that noise? I see the noise and music is through the night.
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I was wondering the same. Also curious about those battery stats: > Battery currently at 80% (a decrease of 6% in the last 4 hours). That's gotta be an OLED screen at lowest brightness or, even more likely, a fully black overlay app since the mic is constantly active and either locally processing it into Shazam and streaming fingerprints or (less cpu, more network) streaming it to a server which then does the process…
They likely removed the screen entirely
I'd doubt it. Installing an app for a dark screen overlay is so much less work compared to disassembling it and then somehow getting it to boot again and being able to control it to trigger Shazam continuously
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#185Nothing says good vibes like "Me So Horny" at 9:03AM lol
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any volume which makes your music become my music too without my consent is at asshole level.
It might be that you’re the asshole in this situation. I think the boundaries are pourous around this topic. (Sure, I just called someone random on the web an asshole. I don’t mean it with any force. In London we get people riding busses playing their im-personal stereos loudly, sometimes. I often don’t like it either. I often use headphones for my own sounds but not the blocking kind, and will have to stop my music…
Realizing that you enjoyed being forced to listen to music you didn't decide to listen to doesn't mean you might be an asshole for not enjoying it at other times. That's ridiculous.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any volume which makes your music become my music too without my consent is at asshole level.
Have you considered those who are hard of hearing? Should they be made to drive their vehicles in silence?
I'm willing to bet 99.99% of the time you hear music from outside a car it's not due to someone being hard of hearing, unless they caused that issue themselves by listening to music too loud.
However, if you are hard of hearing to the point where you are actually disturbing others, I would recommend headphones.
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#188The Mission is a variegated place. It's been undergoing gentrification for 4 decades but it never seems to get there - so much so that you could say that that's become its "thing." The exact location where the phone is placed makes a huge difference. Going from Valencia to Shotwell to the BART plazas to the Latino bars and back to the hills your soundtrack would change quite a few times.
from the example it didn't detect any music between 11:30pm and 9:30am. I don't know what corner of the mission that could possibly be.
>from the example it didn't detect any music between 11:30pm and 9:30am
I thought it might have died because the site mentioned it is solar powered.
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#189I played, more than once, a few of the sound snippets. I think the Shazam "findings" are highly inaccurate. Fun project nonetheless! walz, could you write more about the setup, maybe to propitiate others to replicate it in other cities?
I've listened to a bunch of the snippets and you can usually just barely hear the sound in the background. Which makes me think Shazam is very accurate. I really should read more about how Shazam's algorithm works, because it feels like magic. The phone records 10 minute chunks of audio at a time, in airplane mode. Every 10 minutes, airplane mode is turned off and the audio is uploaded to a server. The server then sp…
will be interesting to see how it fares in the winter!
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#1902 live crew is a W