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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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