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Bop Spotter

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Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by gffrd »

walz wrote: post #157
davidcollantes wrote: post #114

I 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…

Holy cow.

Just clicked around and you're right: the Sep 29 5:19pm snippet detected "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang, and there's almost nothing there. But it's in there.

Had I not known what I was listening for, and been intentionally listening, there's zero chance I'd have picked up on it.

It does feel like magic.

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Post by rdiddly »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #74

Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?

Stick to the streets that have bus lines!

Edit: There's clearly a bus stop right near the pole.

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Post by 867-5309 »

engineer_22 wrote: post #207
pragma_x wrote: post #195

I 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

..of poetry

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Post by card_zero »

alach11 wrote: post #96
microtherion wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! What is it about, then?

The phrase "turn down" is the opposite of "turn up". To "turn down" would be to decrease the intensity of the party. And "turn down for what" means something like "don't stop the party for any reason".

I had to consult with my elders to verify this, but I can now confirm that in 1950s England, "turn it up" meant the opposite: "stop what you're doing, settle down".

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by dzink »

Fantastic idea! The detection doesn’t seem very actuate through - most of it is noise with no actual music playing in the background. I don’t know how the algorithm assumes it’s a song.

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Post by edm0nd »

imchillyb wrote: post #149

How does this project not run afoul of federal and state wiretapping laws? > http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law

honestly, who gives a fuck if it does? its okay to break unjust or silly laws.

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Post by joshdavham »

Quick bit of feedback: Google translate thinks this page is in Spanish (I wonder why). It’d be nice to not see that “translate this page” pop up. Otherwise, cool project!

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by input_sh »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #72
input_sh wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other than "it'd be fun to build", what would it bring to the table in comparison to say this Apple Music playlist? https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-25-berlin/pl.184d798...

What more could one possibly need than "it'd be fun to build"? Does everything in the world have to be novel and important? Or can some things just be cool and for fun?

What I was going for (but poorly expressed) is that if your goal is to figure out what people listen to within a geographical area, streaming service data seems far more comprehensive than putting one mic on one random street.
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