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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by mcphage on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:31AM (#18067185)
> and without internet

That's really sweet—I wonder how much storage that requires? I would have expected it to require a lot, but if it's on a phone, then maybe not that much?

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by icebraining on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:34AM (#18067231)
The database holds fingerprints for ~17000 songs and takes 53MBs: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-2-now-playing-so...
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by mrguyorama on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:35PM (#18068519)
They should allow you to download databases based on things like genre. The 64gb Pixel could hold a very very large amount
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by mcphage on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#18067488)
Thanks—that's crazy awesome :-)
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