The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask “what song is this”, you get a reply like “use apple’s Shazam”.

They say Google assistant music recognition was working so well and super accurate.

Although I was never able to have it work. When I ask “what song is this” I can only get one of this two results:

  1. Sorry, I didn’t understand (90% of cases)
  2. Search “what song is this” on Google

My use cases are:

  1. In car listening to radio. I never have it work.
  2. Know which song is playing right now on the device when I’m using headphones. It never worked but it should be trivial, you already have all the metadata already. My iPod touch could do this super reliably and 100% offline TWENTY YEARS ago. It was so useful.
  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Google Assistant could do it.

    So it’s more like complaining that your coffee maker stopped making the water hot.

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      8 months ago

      Pixels just do it automatically on the lock screen, no need for assistant, or even going online, it works just on the phone.

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        8 months ago

        It’s pretty good but it works with a limited database stored on your phone.

        With Google Assistant’s music recognition you get to access a larger database stored on their servers.

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      8 months ago

      A better comparison would be that your coffee maker’s RGB light no longer supports a specific off-shade of pink.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, and it’s almost like that is still an ongoing thing hence it’s quite understandable that Gemini is severly unfinished and broken for now.

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            8 months ago

            Ah yes Google is well known for achieving feature parity with its own competing apps before axing them after all.

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              8 months ago

              if that was the case they would have just embedded gemini into the assistant app and raised the middle finger to all their user base

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                8 months ago

                There’s a big bonus and promotion for the Gemini’s product manager. That means GA is on the death row.

                They’re already removing features from GA, so “reaching parity” is faster

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                  8 months ago

                  yeah, that’s shitty

                  not knowing any better, I’d guess these “improvements” are effects of some of those layoffs

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                8 months ago

                They ran Gmail and Inbox concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

                They ran Google Music and YouTube music concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

                Etc.

                So why would that be the case?

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                  8 months ago

                  Don’t remind me inbox is gone! I want that sweet sweet mail organization back in my life.

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                  8 months ago

                  that only implies they’re axing gemini, which would solve the “problem” posted above

                  in other words, the post complains about something that hasn’t happened yet

                  just keep using google assistant

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                    8 months ago

                    They mean YouTube music and Google play music concurrently and we still don’t have feature parity for Google play music features on YouTube music.

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                Umm… they’re doing this. I literally was prompted the other day to test out Gemini as my assistant app. Granted this was my fuckup by opting in, but I thought it’d at least have the basics… Now I can’t set reminders, or look up my calendar info with my voice like I used to. Not being able to identify songs is just as equally ridiculous. It barely searches.