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Yeah, Shazam was the last Zero to One moment I had with Tech. A true, visceral in-the-moment 'wow' that no social media giant or app has come close to emulating.

The user value to time investment ratio is off the charts for Shazam. I love music and what they have done for it, especially in the context of other music apps like Spotify et al.

Second the Don't Ruin It Apple plea, but congrats to the creators on a well-deserved exit.

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Google Now natively supports song detection in surroundings. It is also pretty good at it, and Google will do it passively without ever needing to open it as an app.

I used Shazam a long time ago, so dunno how it had changed, but it certainly isn't a novel idea.

Google Now won't detect music for you outside the US (Shazam does)

soundhound will though :) I have not used it in a while, but I used to have both apps on my phone

It works in Poland (tested few seconds ago).

works in Canada

Google now works in France

  and Google will do it passively without ever needing to open it as an app.

Listening 24/7 isn't a privacy invasion at all.

It uses an offline database of songs to make this feature work, without uploading your surrounding sounds.

Seriously? Shouldn't that be gb's of data? If anything would be cloud dependent, I thought this would be it.

The amount of songs with fingerprints stored on-device is several orders of magnitudes lower than the full library (tens of thousands instead of millions): https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/19/how-googles-pixel-2-now-p...

it only supports the most popular few thousand songs

Turns, out most of us are boring and predicable and storing prints for 10 000 songs is enough to recognize most of the songs people are listening to.

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