This kind of project has made me realize that somewhere along the way, I quit thinking of tech as a way to build anything fun. I need to rekindle that goofball spirit.
Get into solar! You can cobble things together pretty reliably to do fun things.
Bop Spotter
201–210 of 405 posts
Re: Bop Spotter
#202Google added this optional feature to pixel lock screens a few years back. You can 'heart' songs and it adds them you your playlist. It looks like my phone ID's about 300 songs a month! https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en
[deleted]
Re: Bop Spotter
#203Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?
I don't know what a "surprisingly high" number is - but the mission is about 1/3 Spanish speaking as far as I can tell[1]. [1] It's hard actually, but this language diversity data( https://www.sf.gov/data/san-francisco-language-diversity-dat... ) says there are ~20k speakers and this district population breakdown ( https://www.sfgov.org/ccsfgsa/current-san-francisco-supervis... ) says there are ~67k residents
This is looking about 90% Spanish songs and 10% reggae-fusion.
Re: Bop Spotter
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> I really should read more about how Shazam's algorithm works, because it feels like magic. https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
Also, if you’re more visual, algorithm inventor Avery Wang delivered an accessible and detailed lecture at DAFx several years back:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTnj3OIhwI
I found it especially insightful because he started from the beginning and traced the thought process as the algorithm developed and became more sophisticated.
Re: Bop Spotter
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is not generally legal to drive while wearing headphones. In some US states it is specifically banned, and in many others you will get pulled over for distracted driving. (The thinking is partly because it makes it more difficult to hear emergency vehicle sirens).
Re: Bop Spotter
#206This kind of project has made me realize that somewhere along the way, I quit thinking of tech as a way to build anything fun. I need to rekindle that goofball spirit.
Just reorient your thinking to consider building CRUD web apps as fun.
Re: Bop Spotter
#207I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…
you must be an architect
Re: Bop Spotter
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is not generally legal to drive while wearing headphones. In some US states it is specifically banned, and in many others you will get pulled over for distracted driving. (The thinking is partly because it makes it more difficult to hear emergency vehicle sirens).
If your headphones are blocking sound, yeah it can be hazardous.
Re: Bop Spotter
#209I 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…
The battery will live much longer if you run it from 80% down to 50%. There are some clever plugs you can get off the shelf if your phone doesn’t support setting this in software.
Re: Bop Spotter
#210How do I join the party? Is there a quickstart so you can hear the vibes of Berlin? [edit: It would be awesome if others could collaborate on this and had a guide on how to do it!]
I recommend you sit this one out, as recording people, even if only audio and sending the sound over the internet is very much against the law in germany
Installing stuff on public utility polls is probably illegal everywhere.