{"id":7083,"date":"2011-12-18T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2011-12-19T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:02:18","slug":"mildly-impressed-by-shazam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/mildly-impressed-by-shazam\/","title":{"rendered":"mildly impressed by shazam (and soundhound)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a late adopter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shazam.com\/music\/web\/home.html\">Shazam<\/a>, which is a semi-magic music recognition service. I just gave it a ten song shuffle from my collection.<\/p>\n<p>Shazam matched:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LLL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jesse Sykes &amp; The Sweet Hereafter<\/li>\n<li>Puppet Master \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Marissa Nadler<\/li>\n<li>He Woke Me Up Again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sufjan Stevens<\/li>\n<li>At The Bottom Of Everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bright Eyes<\/li>\n<li>Derelict \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Beck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shazam found no match for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G-bJSOrFFY4\">Religious Songs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Withered Hand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r1NHPXPxzlc\">Caney Fork River<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Old Man Luedecke<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jdYvNGEGbw4\">Appetite \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Mount Eerie<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Setting Forth \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Flashman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shazam was completely wrong about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reuben \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Rafe Stefanini, which it thought was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4G54G8-mLr8\">Sure The One You Need \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ron Wood<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So: 50% hit rate, 50% miss \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and one false positive. Adequate.<\/p>\n<p>Karl recommended I try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundhound.com\/\">SoundHound<\/a>. It matched:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LLL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jesse Sykes &amp; The Sweet Hereafter<\/li>\n<li>He Woke Me Up Again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sufjan Stevens<\/li>\n<li>Religious Songs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Withered Hand<\/li>\n<li>Caney Fork River \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Old Man Luedecke<\/li>\n<li>At The Bottom Of Everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bright Eyes<\/li>\n<li>Derelict \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Beck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Soundhound didn&#8217;t match:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Puppet Master \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Marissa Nadler<\/li>\n<li>Reuben \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Rafe Stefanini<\/li>\n<li>Appetite \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Mount Eerie<\/li>\n<li>Setting Forth \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Flashman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it knew about Withered Hand and Old Man Luedecke, but didn&#8217;t know about Marissa. About the same; maybe slightly better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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: LLL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jesse Sykes &amp; The Sweet Hereafter Puppet Master \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Marissa Nadler He Woke Me Up Again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sufjan Stevens At The Bottom Of Everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Bright Eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[628,47,2441,2442],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-iphone","tag-music","tag-shazam","tag-soundhound"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}