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Looking for somthing on android preferably something on fdroid.

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[–] GabberPiet 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] ElPussyKangaroo 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They're free for now because the API they use is in beta... We don't know if it'll remain free.

[–] Oisteink 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like most things in life theres no free cpu cycles. They all have a cost somehow

[–] gedaliyah 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Free software can make money and be sustainable.

[–] Oisteink 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So someone is paying - theres allways a cost

[–] gedaliyah 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 1 points 1 week ago

The notification stays on in the background and allows you to tap it whenever you need an instant recognition...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you for referencing my list! In case anyone wants some extra info: The frontends for Audire and Audile are open source. Audire uses the proprietary Shazam API, but Audile uses the open source APIs AudD and ACRCloud.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] BurnedOliveTree 4 points 1 week ago

Seconding Audile, it's great