work as if you live in the early days of a better nation
Chirp is a new annoyance, a way of sending links and stuff via audio. Sounds like it’s doing it via MFSK, and is only sending the ID of the link on Chirp’s server, as there’s not much data sent. Here’s what the spectrum plot looks like:
This is what it sounds like: test chirp [mp3].
I’m a late adopter of Shazam, which is a semi-magic music recognition service. I just gave it a ten song shuffle from my collection.
Shazam matched:
Shazam found no match for:
Shazam was completely wrong about:
So: 50% hit rate, 50% miss — and one false positive. Adequate.
Karl recommended I try SoundHound. It matched:
Soundhound didn’t match:
So it knew about Withered Hand and Old Man Luedecke, but didn’t know about Marissa. About the same; maybe slightly better.
The bloke standing behind the console looks like he’s working an iPhone – in 1959!
(actually, it might just be a cigarette; see the open pack of Luckies by Grace Murray Hopper’s right elbow.)
Image nicked from the NMAH | COBOL – COBOL online exhibit.
In response to Jill’s post to fegmaniax:
I was trying to get to 100, but I guess I’m not that acquisitive.