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Bop Spotter: "a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed (andrew.masto.host)

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Scrolling through the list. The timestamps are too regular, meaning it is interpreting a lot of ambient noise as music.

[–] weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 hours ago

You can listen to the recording of each entry by clicking on it. Sometimes it does seem to be only noise but maybe the machine has better hearing than I do...

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Or it's a contrived post with fake data

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Very possible. But wanted to presume bad coding over outright falsification.