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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by creaghpatr on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:09AM (#18066928)
Yeah, Shazam was the last Zero to One moment I had with Tech. A true, visceral in-the-moment 'wow' that no social media giant or app has come close to emulating.

The user value to time investment ratio is off the charts for Shazam. I love music and what they have done for it, especially in the context of other music apps like Spotify et al.

Second the Don't Ruin It Apple plea, but congrats to the creators on a well-deserved exit.

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by screye on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:31AM (#18067186)
Google Now natively supports song detection in surroundings. It is also pretty good at it, and Google will do it passively without ever needing to open it as an app.

I used Shazam a long time ago, so dunno how it had changed, but it certainly isn't a novel idea.

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by stanmancan on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:30PM (#18069687) 

  and Google will do it passively without ever needing to open it as an app.
Listening 24/7 isn't a privacy invasion at all.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by on_and_off on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:37PM (#18069755)
It uses an offline database of songs to make this feature work, without uploading your surrounding sounds.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by thinkloop on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:55PM (#18070397)
Seriously? Shouldn't that be gb's of data? If anything would be cloud dependent, I thought this would be it.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by yunyu on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:06PM (#18070476)
The amount of songs with fingerprints stored on-device is several orders of magnitudes lower than the full library (tens of thousands instead of millions): https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/19/how-googles-pixel-2-now-p...
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by on_and_off on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:53PM (#18071242)
Turns, out most of us are boring and predicable and storing prints for 10 000 songs is enough to recognize most of the songs people are listening to.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by nerfhammer on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:19PM (#18070568)
it only supports the most popular few thousand songs
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by zimmund on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:27PM (#18069641)
Google Now won't detect music for you outside the US (Shazam does)
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by on_and_off on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:37PM (#18069764)
soundhound will though :) I have not used it in a while, but I used to have both apps on my phone
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by Sekhmet on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:38PM (#18069768)
It works in Poland (tested few seconds ago).
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by ArnoVW on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:49AM (#18073342)
Google now works in France
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by ChrisArchitect on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:56PM (#18070411)
works in Canada
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