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Post by tialaramex »

PhiSchle wrote: post #332
repeekad wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

surely shazam will realize when one IP address is responsible for 1000x a usual person's bandwidth? or, given Pixel phones can identify audio in the background seemingly without impacting battery, are modern algorithms for identifying music from audio so efficient that shazam pays almost nothing per clip?

At least with the recent Pixels there's an option to have your phone listen 24/7 and tell you what music is playing. Probably difficult to distinguish this tower from a homeless guy sitting in a subway station listening to different music all day.

That app ("Now playing") is the same technology as Shazam but it's local, because this isn't actually difficult on modern hardware. It's the same technique the Pixel uses to notice that somebody said "Google" to it, again without needing a remote server.

Now Playing has a smaller database than Shazam does but the technology would work fine with a larger database if you wanted that, which for this application you might.

However, unsurprisingly Google did not give away the technology.

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Post by kotaKat »

oorza wrote: post #302
simonw wrote: post #250

Some details on how this works: https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1840821351055311245 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…

If 2% of the battery is 2% of 3000mAh (which is probably a generous over-estimate of the phone's capacity), that means the phone pulls ~60mA. You can buy a 60,000 mAh battery (or build one) for about $50, which would buy this device 10,000 hours, or round it down and call it 1 year.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZJDVDLC

This little no-name 185Wh battery pack is $40 right now with the 50% coupon code and would probably work great. (I picked one up recently for another project and it actually does deliver as advertised performance.)

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Post by weakfish »

HenryBemis wrote: post #261
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…

> ..a kind of punk-rock.. And my mind flew to Mogwai's "Punk Rock" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5_0AMEDag )

Covered incredibly by deafheaven (along side the track Cody)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyIggA4b5w

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Post by andai »

myself248 wrote: post #365
andai wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's so cool, I gotta check out this Tasker thing! >when it boots again Do any Android phones turn on automatically when sufficiently charged? The ones I've had stay switched off but with a little battery charging animation. (I think my old iPhone auto powered on when charged past a certain percentage though.)

When the phone is "off" but showing the charging animation, it's actually booted and the animation is a program it's running. There used to be a hack, I don't know if it works on modern Android, where you'd essentially edit the init scripts and tell it that the charging animation task should be the rest of the boot process, or your specific app of interest.

That's interesting. But the charging animation appears near instantly, while my phone takes a minute or two to start?

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Post by s2l »

oorza wrote: post #302
simonw wrote: post #250

Some details on how this works: https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1840821351055311245 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…

If 2% of the battery is 2% of 3000mAh (which is probably a generous over-estimate of the phone's capacity), that means the phone pulls ~60mA. You can buy a 60,000 mAh battery (or build one) for about $50, which would buy this device 10,000 hours, or round it down and call it 1 year.

For another use case, I experienced that the phone battery starts swelling after few months. It was an indoor setup and I had removed the phone backcover to avoid overheating.
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