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submitted 1 year ago by AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

If someone doesn't know what Shazam is, it listens to music playing on the radio or TV and identifies it and helps you find the name/artist.

I was wondering if there open source equivalent, I tried searching google and AlternativeTo but only found Linux desktop apps.

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[-] SoftestVoid@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

From my understanding the "what song is playing" apps/services essentially have a big database of music stored in a special hash function. When you record the music it converts it into a hash, then compares it to the database.

Could these databases and algorithms be open source? Absolutely. Would it be really hard or expensive to maintain the database distribution or hosting? Definitely. Would music rights holders allow an open source project to have access to their music libraries to put into the database? Probably not... I would think that the services that do this have big agreements with rights holders that open source would not be able to get.

[CW: Uninformed copyright law speculation] IANAL, but a hash of music is not the music itself, something that can be converted to music, or in any way protected by copyright AFAIK. That being said, I think the rest of your comment is correct.

[-] SoftestVoid@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'd agree about the database probably not being copyright, but I was more talking about getting access to the music to convert in the first place.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

it's a mod, not 100% Foss, but try ambient music mod.

That looks really interesting, thank you!

[-] zekiz@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] fr0g@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Even most of the Linux apps use Shazam or similar for the backend. Most everything you will find in that area has some proprietary components and I can imagine that being hard to avoid for something that has to interface with licensed content (the music)

[-] lea@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The closest I know is AcoustID but it's only worked with full song files when I tried it via the API and I'm not sure how well it would work with a bad microphone recording.

[-] kima09@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just use your Google assistant, it's pretty accurate and it even recognize humming. The keyword is "What's this song or What song is this/Recognize this song/etc"

[-] Gryzor@lemmyfly.org 7 points 1 year ago

Google Assistant doesn't meet the OP's requirements: it's not open source.

[-] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

While i find Google Assistant better at finding music, it isn't open source and thus not what OP is looking for.

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