it's just an example of the capability of the OS... And if it's done in idle time, what difference does it make how much CPU time it takes? And no one said it was implemented by default. Moreover, who's to say that it wouldn't use a combination of fingerprinting and voice recognition (for less popular songs) to get lyrics? It's just an example, no need to be so critical.
By the way, there are many more potential features such as auto recognizing instruments used and genre. The idea is creating metadata, not just reading it. And that's where it's revolutionary. I envision it eventually merging with face recognition technologies like myheritage.com, so one could potentially type "pictures of me and Vanessa" and Spotlight will have already matched up faces with the pictures in your address book, providing relevant results. And just imagine where the technology could go from there.
Metadata is already used in Tiger's Spotlight. And OS X 10.5 is going to use metadata even more heavily, and even generate metadata (e.g. autodetect photos taken at night, voice recognize lyrics in songs), according to rumors. So this doesn't seem like much of a killer app for Vista.
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it's just an example of the capability of the OS... And if it's done in idle time, what difference does it make how much CPU time it takes? And no one said it was implemented by default. Moreover, who's to say that it wouldn't use a combination of fingerprinting and voice recognition (for less popular songs) to get lyrics? It's just an example, no need to be so critical.
By the way, there are many more potential features such as auto recognizing instruments used and genre. The idea is creating metadata, not just reading it. And that's where it's revolutionary. I envision it eventually merging with face recognition technologies like myheritage.com, so one could potentially type "pictures of me and Vanessa" and Spotlight will have already matched up faces with the pictures in your address book, providing relevant results. And just imagine where the technology could go from there.
Metadata is already used in Tiger's Spotlight. And OS X 10.5 is going to use metadata even more heavily, and even generate metadata (e.g. autodetect photos taken at night, voice recognize lyrics in songs), according to rumors. So this doesn't seem like much of a killer app for Vista.