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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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