Comments on: RIP Listen.app http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/ Erica Sadun Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Maurice_Bonn http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2659 Maurice_Bonn Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:51:04 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2659 Hi Erica, I as most of the world liked "LISTEN". Can you contact me for a possible partnership? I would like to know what the licensefee would be of this dbase provider. Regards, Maurice Hi Erica,

I as most of the world liked “LISTEN”.
Can you contact me for a possible partnership?
I would like to know what the licensefee would be of this dbase provider.

Regards,

Maurice

]]> By: Anson http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2166 Anson Thu, 29 May 2008 22:36:57 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2166 @ mnidhk, caquino From what I can tell, Listen is just VNotes that posts the short recorded audio sample to a Web Service (e.g. Gracenote's TrackID) and displays the returned track information. The Web Service needs to be able to accept a fairly short duration audio sample, check it against a large database of possibilies, and return any matching track data. IIRC, the MusicDNS developer's guide states that it requires at least 135 seconds of audio data to generate the fingerprint, which is THEN used to look up the track data. So therein lies the problem; those that have the ability to do audio waveform recognition generally want to be well compensated for their highly specialized product. It looks like we'll have to wait for someone with a big enough wallet to license a commercial service to the application end-users... it seems like Apple would be in the ideal position to provide this type of service/application. @ mnidhk, caquino

From what I can tell, Listen is just VNotes that posts the short recorded audio sample to a Web Service (e.g. Gracenote’s TrackID) and displays the returned track information.

The Web Service needs to be able to accept a fairly short duration audio sample, check it against a large database of possibilies, and return any matching track data.

IIRC, the MusicDNS developer’s guide states that it requires at least 135 seconds of audio data to generate the fingerprint, which is THEN used to look up the track data.

So therein lies the problem; those that have the ability to do audio waveform recognition generally want to be well compensated for their highly specialized product.

It looks like we’ll have to wait for someone with a big enough wallet to license a commercial service to the application end-users… it seems like Apple would be in the ideal position to provide this type of service/application.

]]> By: Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen | Scharnetzki´s - line of reasoning http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2131 Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen | Scharnetzki´s - line of reasoning Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:27:03 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2131 [...] 1) January 7th 2008: Listen.app for hacked iPhones is released http://ericasadun.com/?p=126. The developer Erica Sadun released beginning of January 2008 an iPhone application that makes use of the Gracenote sound recognition service to identify title, artist and album for any music that the application would “hear”. Users could click on a link to go to iTunes to buy the song directly online (not fully functional in the beta). User feedback to Listen.app is extremely positive: “Listen. Motivated two of them to go buy iPhones, a smart move since 1.3 has hit. But the BEST sign that Listen is powerful came when I showed it t my wife. She could care less about gadgets and basically has pretended to be interested in whatever I show her on my iPhone. But when I showed her Listen, she suddenly became VERY interested. If it caught HER attention, that means there’s a huge market for Listen.” Source: http://ericasadun.com/?p=143 [...] […] 1) January 7th 2008: Listen.app for hacked iPhones is released http://ericasadun.com/?p=126. The developer Erica Sadun released beginning of January 2008 an iPhone application that makes use of the Gracenote sound recognition service to identify title, artist and album for any music that the application would “hear”. Users could click on a link to go to iTunes to buy the song directly online (not fully functional in the beta). User feedback to Listen.app is extremely positive: “Listen. Motivated two of them to go buy iPhones, a smart move since 1.3 has hit. But the BEST sign that Listen is powerful came when I showed it t my wife. She could care less about gadgets and basically has pretended to be interested in whatever I show her on my iPhone. But when I showed her Listen, she suddenly became VERY interested. If it caught HER attention, that means there’s a huge market for Listen.” Source: http://ericasadun.com/?p=143 […]

]]> By: Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen | Scharnetzki´s - line of reasoning http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2129 Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen | Scharnetzki´s - line of reasoning Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:18:42 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-2129 [...] “Listen. Motivated two of them to go buy iPhones, a smart move since 1.3 has hit. But the BEST sign that Listen is powerful came when I showed it t my wife. She could care less about gadgets and basically has pretended to be interested in whatever I show her on my iPhone. But when I showed her Listen, she suddenly became VERY interested. If it caught HER attention, that means there’s a huge market for Listen.”Source: http://ericasadun.com/?p=143 [...] […] “Listen. Motivated two of them to go buy iPhones, a smart move since 1.3 has hit. But the BEST sign that Listen is powerful came when I showed it t my wife. She could care less about gadgets and basically has pretended to be interested in whatever I show her on my iPhone. But when I showed her Listen, she suddenly became VERY interested. If it caught HER attention, that means there’s a huge market for Listen.”Source: http://ericasadun.com/?p=143 […]

]]> By: mnidhk http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1571 mnidhk Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:26:27 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1571 @ caquino Can you give some info about your progress about the new listen you are making. Still working on it?? @ caquino

Can you give some info about your progress about the new listen you are making. Still working on it??

]]> By: transam98 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1516 transam98 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:57:06 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1516 I just upgraded my phone to 1.12, and I see Listen isnt on the installer anymore, Is there a way I can manually install it sinc I still have the files ? If someone can help me I may even be willing to paypal you a small fee :) Email me at: cl1 @ hd-tv.com thanks in advance :) I just upgraded my phone to 1.12, and I see Listen isnt on the installer anymore, Is there a way I can manually install it sinc I still have the files ? If someone can help me I may even be willing to paypal you a small fee :) Email me at: cl1 @ hd-tv.com thanks in advance :)

]]> By: noizviolation http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1514 noizviolation Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:23:40 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1514 How can I use this with 1.1.3? How can I use this with 1.1.3?

]]> By: caquino http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1431 caquino Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:08:19 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1431 Hi Erica, First of all thanks for all your hard work, I'm writing one app similar to your Listen but using MusicBrainz and MusicID, are you thinking in release your deprecated projects sources ? If yes I'll be glad to use your work (and retain credits for you for sure) and just do the modification to use musicbrainz and musicid. Thanks in advance! Hi Erica,
First of all thanks for all your hard work, I’m writing one app similar to your Listen but using MusicBrainz and MusicID, are you thinking in release your deprecated projects sources ?

If yes I’ll be glad to use your work (and retain credits for you for sure) and just do the modification to use musicbrainz and musicid.

Thanks in advance!

]]> By: maxbugno http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1392 maxbugno Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:37:12 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1392 Thanks for the answer. We all love you! Thanks for the answer.

We all love you!

]]> By: Erica Sadun http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1390 Erica Sadun Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:23:46 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/01/rip-listenapp/#comment-1390 Pretty much--busy as anything with the 1.1.3 update. For now Listen remains RIP. Pretty much–busy as anything with the 1.1.3 update.

For now Listen remains RIP.

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