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Gemini on Android can't ID songs, and it's frustrating | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask "what song is this", you get a reply like "use apple's Shazam".

They say Google assistant music recognition was working so well and super accurate.

Although I was never able to have it work. When I ask "what song is this" I can only get one of this two results:

  1. Sorry, I didn't understand (90% of cases)
  2. Search "what song is this" on Google

My use cases are:

  1. In car listening to radio. I never have it work.
  2. Know which song is playing right now on the device when I'm using headphones. It never worked but it should be trivial, you already have all the metadata already. My iPod touch could do this super reliably and 100% offline TWENTY YEARS ago. It was so useful.
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

if that was the case they would have just embedded gemini into the assistant app and raised the middle finger to all their user base

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a big bonus and promotion for the Gemini's product manager. That means GA is on the death row.

They're already removing features from GA, so "reaching parity" is faster

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

yeah, that's shitty

not knowing any better, I'd guess these "improvements" are effects of some of those layoffs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Umm.. they're doing this. I literally was prompted the other day to test out Gemini as my assistant app. Granted this was my fuckup by opting in, but I thought it'd at least have the basics.. Now I can't set reminders, or look up my calendar info with my voice like I used to. Not being able to identify songs is just as equally ridiculous. It barely searches.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yes, we know it's limited - but can't you go back to assistant? I have the option

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They ran Gmail and Inbox concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

They ran Google Music and YouTube music concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

Etc.

So why would that be the case?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Don't remind me inbox is gone! I want that sweet sweet mail organization back in my life.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

that only implies they're axing gemini, which would solve the "problem" posted above

in other words, the post complains about something that hasn't happened yet

just keep using google assistant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They mean YouTube music and Google play music concurrently and we still don't have feature parity for Google play music features on YouTube music.