On Saturday 31 March 2012 21:02:26 Istvan Gabor wrote:

Hello:

Is there any shazam-like music identification program for openSUSE/linux that works? I tried midomi at this site but id did not work: http://www.midomi.com/objects/midomiLandingVoiceSearch.swf

Two things, first shazam is available for linux. Specifically the version of linux called Android. Second, it isn't the program that identifies the music, that is all done on the backend. The program just records a few seconds of music and sends it to the shazam server, where it gets matched against a - presumably huge - database of known songs. The program as such probably could be written as open source, there are similar efforts in image recognition (not saying I could do it personally, just that I have seen similar efforts in other areas so I'm pretty sure the talent is out there), but the real trick is in building the huge music database and having it available online. I suspect the best we can hope for there is a frontend for the shazam service. Maybe it's even possible to run the official app somehow. Shouldn't it be possible to run android java apps on a normal desktop system? Perhaps through the android SDK? I've never tried, so I don't know if it's possible to make that use the system microphone for things like that. Might be worth playing with Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org