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This happened to a friend of mine recently, who didn't care to fight it, so we all lost. The part that I don't understand is: Shazam is really bad at classical
by ken 6y ago
This happened to a friend of mine recently, who didn't care to fight it, so we all lost.
The part that I don't understand is: Shazam is really bad at classical music. Unless it's the exact recording of the piece as their database, it seems, Shazam won't recognize it at all. And a little noise or static is enough to throw it off.
How is it that FB/YT content detectors are so far ahead of the game that they can detect old music in completely new recordings? Or, alternatively, why can't FB/GOOG slap a simple UI on their services and make an app like Shazam for users but 50 times better?
We've got the worst of both worlds right now: bad detection of music when we want it, and overzealous matching of new recordings when we don't.
- jimbob45 6y ago+1 this I don't think a lot of people know how truly bad Shazam is at classical music. Stuff that should be very obvious (NPR Live From Here, for example) routinely gets misidentified for me.
- jecel 6y agoIs Youtube really better at identifying the music? For one video my father posted we got a complaint that some company owned the song for the part where my sister was playing the piano and singing. It offered the option of muting it or allowing ads with the money going to the company. What it didn't say was what song specifically it thought the video had. So though they offered the option to contest it there was no way for us to do that without this information. The lyrics were something my sister had written herself, so it was very likely that it was a false match. It obviously had a recording of what they thought matched or it couldn't have made the comparison. But without allowing me access to that recording there is no way to know if their algorithm is any good.