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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by avip on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:11AM (#18066945)
Well acktually, in my admittedly limited experience, Shazam is not capable of recognizing any music at all without the digitized metadata encoded with sound files. I've tried multiple times to sing very popular songs to it. It never recognized them. You could attribute it to my poor musical skills (and I'm fine with that), but 100% of humans would recognize the songs in < 10s timeframe.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by smoe on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:38AM (#18067281)
As far as I know, the way Shazam uses fingerprints it is not supposed to recognize any song this way. Or even when a cover or a live version of a song is played.

I remember Adam Neely (A musician/jazz composer/youtuber) mentioning in a Q&A, that for songs they played live for a television broadcast, backing tracks were added underneath and it was mixed as close as possible to the originals, among other reasons for the purpose of them being better "shazamable".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_5j3Wm9qM&t=11m38s

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by twtw on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:03PM (#18067545)
> digitized metadata

What are you referring to here?

It doesn't recognize you singing because it doesn't have the same spectral content as the full song. Shaman doesn't really identify tunes, it identifies recordings. (And it is amazing to me that it works at all)

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by FPGAhacker on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:19AM (#18067015)
To the best of my knowledge, Shazam works on frequency spectrum analysis and how it changes over time. This includes all aspects of the music and not just melody.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by alfredmuffin on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:17AM (#18066998)
Sounds like the problem was your singing.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by pvinis on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:59AM (#18067507)
Pun intended?
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by rlpb on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:19AM (#18075596)
It recognises _recordings_, not performances.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by chrisweekly on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:29AM (#18067164)
Try SoundHound for singing
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by avip on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:41PM (#18067925)
I have. It outperforms Shazam hands down for this use case. But still very limited.
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