The design inspiration site https://mschfplaysvenmo.com/ also looks pretty fun.
Bop Spotter
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#234Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
Different old songs (still on Shazam) in lat and long direction, if you find two of them you have the exact location.
Could also place a directional speaker on top of your cars roof to not listen to it yourself or interrupt neighbors, just to be able to locate it.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm pretty amused at whoever decided to play KDA at 9:30 last night though.
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#236Quick 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!
> It’d be nice to not see that “translate this page” pop up
Many of the songs detected are latin artists with like monikers and song names.
Is there a way to suppress/prevent google from analyzing the contents of a page and determining such?
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#237so so cool and the spirit of this project (which seems to speak to many other commenters too) really reminds me of this recent hackernews post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395413 'The secret inside One Million Checkboxes'
the creativity in endeavors like these really just elicits total joy. it's infectious!
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#239I 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?
Same, although I know Shazam does most of its work on very high frequencies so it’s possible we’re not able to hear the part that got matched. The “Not Like Us” snippet (09/29 2:43pm) is easily recognizable though. And “Rockabye” can be heard at 3:05pm.
> I know Shazam does most of its work on very high frequencies
Are you sure about that? High frequencies don't propagate as well (and, beyond a point, aren't reproduced at all by cheap speakers), so that would seem to limit its effectiveness pretty severely.
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#240somebody needs to do this at a couple of starbucks in key areas, record anon conversations and build a browsable map of topics