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surely shazam will realize when one IP address is responsible for 1000x a usual person's bandwidth? or, given Pixel phones can identify audio in the background
by repeekad 2y ago
surely shazam will realize when one IP address is responsible for 1000x a usual person's bandwidth?
or, given Pixel phones can identify audio in the background seemingly without impacting battery, are modern algorithms for identifying music from audio so efficient that shazam pays almost nothing per clip?
- rafram 2y agoYes, it essentially just runs a perceptual hash algorithm on the audio and finds the closest matches in a database.
- btown 2y agoSince the audio is sent to the creator’s server first, they could call Shazam from any number of rotating IPs. It’s a pretty future-proof design!
- PhiSchle 2y agoAt least with the recent Pixels there's an option to have your phone listen 24/7 and tell you what music is playing. Probably difficult to distinguish this tower from a homeless guy sitting in a subway station listening to different music all day.
- tialaramex 2y agoThat app ("Now playing") is the same technology as Shazam but it's local, because this isn't actually difficult on modern hardware. It's the same technique the Pixel uses to notice that somebody said "Google" to it, again without needing a remote server. Now Playing has a smaller database than Shazam does but the technology would work fine with a larger database if you wanted that, which for this application you might. However, unsurprisingly Google did not give away the technology.