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I don't mean to take away from Shazam (because I too was amazed when I first used it) but the Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal
by watty 8y ago
I don't mean to take away from Shazam (because I too was amazed when I first used it) but the Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays.
Not really "magic" how it works but still pretty amazing that I can pull the phone out of my pocket any time I hear a song I like and immediately see the band/title.
- emodendroket 8y agoThey do? I use a Pixel 2 XL and I had no idea about this.
- ariwilson 8y agohttps://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en
- emodendroket 8y agoNeat.
- gregknicholson 8y ago> Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays. Is it on by default? Cos that sounds really creepy.
- bradstewart 8y agoNo, it's not.
- ProAm 8y agoShazam is also on by default [1] , so they are both creepy [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-keeps-your-macs-microphone-always-on-even-when-you-turn-it-off https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-kee...
- zwily 8y agoThe Mac app is, which I didn't even know existed.
- kidsnow 8y agoComing soon, Pixel will be able to recognize over 1 million individual voices in your area! Using our enormous database of phone calls to your area code and individualized location tracking, you will be able to find out everything about a person simply by holding your phone near their voice!
- matthewmacleod 8y agoTo stress the point, this feature uses a local database, doesn't send any data off of the device, and is turned off by default.
- notatcomputer68 8y agoImo the creepy thing is that phones are now powerful enough to run always on analysis, not that they are currently doing anything malicious with it.
- mcphage 8y ago> 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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- icebraining 8y agoThe database holds fingerprints for ~17000 songs and takes 53MBs: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-2-now-playing-song-list/ https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-2-now-playing-so...
- mcphage 8y agoThanks—that's crazy awesome :-)
- mrguyorama 8y agoThey should allow you to download databases based on things like genre. The 64gb Pixel could hold a very very large amount
- hanoz 8y ago> without internet For anyone else finding this as implausible as I was, apparently the Pixel has a local database of 17,300 tracks. Still pretty impressive though. https://uk.pcmag.com/news/91606/googles-pixel-2-phones-recognize-17300-songs-offline https://uk.pcmag.com/news/91606/googles-pixel-2-phones-recog...
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoGoogle used to have song identification via voice search and a widget on all Android phones since Lollipop. Then they killed it for no reason other than to screw over existing users. Widget is still there in Nougat but doesn't do anything.
- sorenjan 8y agoThey recently updated the music search. It's integrated in their assistant, and they have a widget for direct access. https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/googles-next-generation-music.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/googles-next-generation-mu...
- ChrisArchitect 8y agowhat, the functionality is still there in Nougat, I access it mostly through the assistant which is good enough to detect a song is playing and suggest What is this song? and has great accuracy