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Ex Shazam tech here. The signatures that the Shazam app sends are very small, so bandwith costs should be minimal. Of course, I speaking about the technology of my day 2001+, so times may have changed
It seems to also send the actual sound samples though.
somebody needs to do this at a couple of starbucks in key areas, record anon conversations and build a browsable map of topics
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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!
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…
How 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
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!
Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
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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.
The phone has a Tasker script running on loop (even if
the battery dies, it’ll restart when it boots again)
Script records 10 min of audio in airplane mode, then
comes out of airplane mode and connects to nearby free
WiFi.
Then uploads the audio file to my server, which splits it
into 15 sec chunks that slightly overlap. Passes each to
Shazam’s API (not public, but someone reverse engineered
it and made a great Python package). Phone only uses 2%
of power every hour when it’s not charging!