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Re:Shazam for Mac by dserodio on Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:15AM (#8114196)
AFAIK, the mobile apps only listen to the microphone when the app is open, not in the background
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Re:Shazam for Mac by dan1234 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @11:29AM (#8114664)
They can listen in the background and Shazam will do this if you enable Automatic mode, though the iOS status bar turns red while the microphone is being accessed by a backgrounded app.
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Re:Shazam for Mac by hodgesmr on Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:48AM (#8114397)
This is incorrect. They added background listening months ago.
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Re:Shazam for Mac by dserodio on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @04:05PM (#8144546)
I'm glad they haven't added this creepy feature to Android yet
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