Post #4138233
2026-07-22 18:22 UTC
@mcc@mastodon.social the 'Google' app on my android does it, and did it long before the rise of LLMs.
Open it up, hit the microphone button in the search field, then hit 'search a song'.
As far as I know, Google, Apple, my car's infotainment system, et al all use Gracenote's proprietary music identification system, which stood on the backs of thousands of volunteers contributing to CDDB (including myself) before it got monetized and paywalled in late-stage web 1.0 dotcom fuckery.
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@IngaLovinde@embracing.space 2026-07-23 08:44
@DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social but CDDB worked on entirely different principle? Not sure how CDDB would help with identifying a song by its fragment.
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@scruss@xoxo.zone 2026-07-22 20:01
@DarcMoughty@infosec.exchange yay! I've finally met someone else who is still salty about the CDDB fuckery!