Yes, it can identify a song under those circumstances. But start listening
to something over the small speaker in your phone, and ask Siri to identify
it. Siri uses the speaker in the phone as a microphone to listen to
whatever is playing. When you ask Siri to identify something, Siri is in
control of what is happening on the phone at the moment, and Siri won't let
the phone go back to the playing song so that Siri can hear it. However,
either Sound Hound or Shazam can identify it while it is playing over that
speaker, I do not know how, but it can. No, I do not do a lot of serious
music listening over that speaker, but if I am listening over my headphones
and want to know what something is, I need to play it over that speaker so
Sound Hound or Shazam can hear it.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:56 PM
Subject: RE: sound hound vs shazam?
Hi Arnold,
What exactly do you mean by "it is unable to do it if I am listening via my
phone's speaker"?
I just played Maggie May by Rod Stewart on my Sonos system in the bedroom. I
asked SIRI "What song is this", SIRI said "OK, let me listen" and it made
the beeps again when it's listening and after about 3 or 4 seconds it said
"I'm pretty sure this is Maggie May by Rod Stewart, but please don't ask me
to sing it".
Now, there is some inconsistency here because a while back I asked SIRI what
song was playing and it would persistently tell me the song that was queued
up to play on my iPhone instead of going into listening mode so it could
listen to music externally.
Today when I just did this I started playing Hotel California on my iPhone
and then I asked SIRI again and each time no matter how I asked SIRI would
start listening wanting to tell me what song it heard instead of telling me
what was currently playing on my phone. I even asked "What song is currently
playing on my iPhone" and all to no avail.
I find SIRI does really well identifying songs that are playing externally,
but I should still be able to ask SIRI what is playing on my phone, too.
This is just one more example showing on the one hand how smart SIRI can be
but also how dum and limited it ccan be.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Arnold Schmidt
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 4:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: sound hound vs shazam?
And, I have observed it work the other way, too. Unfortunately though,
there have been more times when neither of them knew what the song was.
When this happened, the skeptic in me wondered if they both used the same
database? I hope not.] And if that be true, I am sure neither would admit
it.
One more reason to have at least one of these apps on your phone: When I
ask Siri to identify a song, it is unable to do it if I am listening via my
phone's speaker. Both the apps can identify a song when it is playing
through the phone's speaker.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woody Anna Dresner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: sound hound vs shazam?
Hi,
There have been times when Shazam didn't identify something and Sound
Hound did, so I would recommend having Sound Hound as a backup.
Best,
Anna
On Mar 10, 2016, at 11:45 PM, trahern culver <[email protected]>
wrote:
thanks man :)
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