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 down at the street below”

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

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  • Troy
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    1 month ago

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

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        1 month ago

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

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      1 month 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…