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I don't know if I agree with this. I've had Google and Shazam nail songs that were barely audible to my human ears.


With background noise? My wife and I had an interesting unintentional experiment regarding this a few weeks ago at a Slowdive concert. She doesn't know the band well and asked me the name of each song as it began and then also asked Google's song identifier service. I knew all of them and Google couldn't even produce an answer, incorrect or not. Either because of the crowd noise or a live version is sufficiently different from any recorded example it has heard before.


> or a live version is sufficiently different from any recorded example it has heard before

Probably this.


Yes with background noise, but I have never attempted with live music.




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