it’s just a button. and in a perfect world I wouldn’t even need a button
Execution is everything and I have found that the ondevice index shipping with pixel devices displaying the title of the currently playing song on the lockscreen was such a better implementation than having to hurry up and remember where the shazam app is, open it, and try to identify the song (optionally having to try several times and store the sample for later when I have more network).
Weird you brought that up since in the pixel implementation you'd just lose the song forever.
While I think it is the best execution so far, it is not perfect.
But there are tens of thousands of the best developers and billions in investment to make those buttons work.
saying the algorithm "wouldn't work" without an app is like saying my door doesn't work without a doorknob.
OP made a point: Shazam is not magic, and people have the opportunity to compete or DIY. to me, it seems simple/contrarian/not helpful to respond with "they have an app too"
Amazon or Youtube are not magic either. But good luck getting to that same scale without significant effort.
how do i find myself defending the most ridiculous shit here?... like an algorithm can't work without a UI.
> guy 1: "index the Fourier Transform of all songs"
> guy 2: "[don't forget about] their huge database[!]"
how is this not contrarian? biz guy spotted? the dude straight up fucking said to build a database of "ALL SONGS". if you think that's simple you're either not thinking hard enough or you have no idea what he's talking about.
Nobody said that.
colordrops was claiming that the app itself was important, on top of the backend effort.
And it's not. The app is trivial.