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Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars (phonedog.com)
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, one of the most recognized services for music recognition. While the exact amount is unknown, the service may be purchased by Apple for around $400 million. PhoneDog reports: Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, say sources speaking to TechCrunch. The deal will reportedly be signed this week and could be announced as early as next Monday. A report from Recode echoes the news of Apple acquiring Shazam, adding that Shazam will likely be valued at around $400 million. Apple -- and other companies -- already offer a music recognition service, but Apple must see something in Shazam's services that it thinks can help improve its own music recognition if it's going to drop nearly half a billion dollars on this deal. Shazam is able to identify TV shows, films, and advertisements in addition to music, so perhaps Apple sees some benefit to these abilities, too.
That's all I'll pay to you.
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...will be very interested in this automated recognition thing.
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Maybe this is a "hearing aid" for Siri on HomePod?
As soon as it's official, I'll delete the app.
Here's hoping that they remove the ridiculous amount of bloat that Shazam's app has become.
(Of course, having had to deal with iTunes on rare occasion, I'm not *that* hopeful.)
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Buy an that recognizes multi-media and re-direct sale to iTunes. This isn't exactly rocket science. I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't buy Shazaam years ago.
What's kind of puzzling is that you can already do some of this with Siri:
Maybe they are looking to do deeper integration ?
but does it have shaquille o'neal dressed as an oversized effeminate genie? Because if so, no way in hell that's worth half a billion.
Oh wait, that's Kazaam ..
5 seconds is pretty shitty when a human can identify some songs with less than 5 notes.
Why the fuck would you think that? Did you think our brains suddenly became a database of sound? You are seriously dumb.
Because Shazam used to recognize and name music. When I last tried it (and then deleted it), it just tried to sell me stuff. No music recognition happened at all.
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My Shazamme does not work since years. ...
I guess they want me to upgrade to the newest version
But as I'm a software engineer my self, I refuse to follow the 'oh it does not work anymore? did you update?' meme.
I make some screen shots from the music it 'recognized' and then I delete it.
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How many think this is Apple's way of "getting even" with Android users, probably by forcing them to download a version of quicktime to their phone??
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Coulda spent the money on a new Mac with the latest in RAM, bus design, and GPU, but noooooOOOOOOOoooooo...
Would have been cheaper to buy the assets and hire the people after they go belly up. I’m surprise Shazam is still around.
Technology to decipher complex audio from background noise... that’s got to be worth a lot to a company with 1B mobile microphones riding around in pockets & purses.
5 seconds is pretty shitty when a human can identify some songs with less than 5 notes.
Sure, but a human can only identify the relatively few songs that he/she knows (well) compared to Shazam, which can nominally identify ALL songs, TV shows, movies, commercials, etc.
IIRC Shazam technology is what Apple is already using.
I have been a Shazam user since it was a shortcode (2580) to call with your mobile phone and you got back an SMS message either identifying the song (and costing you) or saying sorry (for free). That was before app stores, and almost before phone apps, just after Shazam launched. A music- and technology-obsessed friend told me about it, and I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. I still think it's pretty cool.
I don't have a lot of confidence Apple won't ruin it. Will the Android app get any love now? Will there be links to buy the music from anyone except the iTunes store?
Shazam made a genuinely innovative idea that is useful for many people and it still is. Apple used to do that, now all their ideas are just marketing and they buy other companies to wither in Cupertino.
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this is an excellent purchase to have software intergrated into the os and allows awarness of the music fabric around the individual. Be nice to just go into the history and see a listing of the music detected about you. The meta data from the music listing would be an amazing resource for regional ratings and could even provide an insight into the individuals musical preferences and matched to purchase behavior could be correlated to playlists for stores that would increase the sales and would be highly valuable information. This could also be expanded into all media movies, television and commercials. In the end audio interpretation of conversation meta data and ambient noise (crosswalks, engine noise, police sirens, etc..)
Siri already has this feature, but I wouldn't expect you to know that...