Looking for somthing on android preferably something on fdroid.
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I love FOSS but honestly why does this need to be FOSS?
It is an app that has access to both your microphone and the internet.
Cos id like to get my phone as close to pure foss as possible
Becoss
Why does it need to be proprietary?
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. Just publish the code.
They may have nothing to hide but they have IP to protect to stay in business. What a ridiculous thing to say.
whatsapp doesn’t have the best app. It doesn’t look the best, it’s not the fastest. It was just very great back in the days. But not anymore. Whatsapp could easily publish the code. It’s not the client, it’s the server. They could even publish the server code. It’s not the code itself. It’s the people using it.
They don’t lock out third party apps and slow down reverse engineering by giving their code away.
Note that the clients being FOSS is of little relevance because all they do is forward a recording to a blackbox proprietary service run by a for-profit company.
The code that has access to your audio and does the actual task at hand is not FOSS in the slightest.
They’re free for now because the API they use is in beta… We don’t know if it’ll remain free.
It insists it need to send notifications for it to work. I get it needs the microphone, but it won’t work without notification permissions.
I don’t get this at all
The notification stays on in the background and allows you to tap it whenever you need an instant recognition…
Like most things in life theres no free cpu cycles. They all have a cost somehow
Free software can make money and be sustainable.
So someone is paying - theres allways a cost
Yes, exactly - The assumption that FOSS means that there is no financial support is practically archaic. I pay for any software that is useful to me, and many other people do too. There’s donations, perks, exclusive content that subsidizes the core work, there are grants, etc.
Seconding Audile, it’s great
Audile is on F-droid, though it uses AudD for the actual music recognition backend. I’m not sure it’s possible to have a FOSS backend for this kind of service.
There’s Ambient Music Mod, “Port of Now Playing from Pixels to other Android devices”. It’s not the same, but it allows for your device to recognise popular music even while offline, possibly on a regular basis. It requires Shizuku, though.
Wow looks great doesnt seem to be on fdroid tho
That was such an awesome movie
Shaq’s best performance.
On and off the court
