There is Soundhound but I've found it's accuracy is not quite as good. But the app is a little cooler and it writes a playlist of queries to Spotify.
After Apple integrated with Siri, I discovered a nice, somewhat hidden feature which is open iTunes Store >> Hamburger Menu >> Siri to find a preserved history of my "what song is this?" queries. Even in loud environments I find asking my phone to tell me what song it is works well and is a little easier than opening an app.
Since my Shazam accuracy is also terrible, I'll give it a try. I was at a show this weekend and Shazam couldn't find musics played from its own author. In my experience it just work well when matching an official recording. Maybe it is better for anglo-american music.
AFAIK, Shazam (and other audio fingerprinting stuff, like youtube's copyright analysis) works on some very precise timings of volume peaks & tones. I wouldn't expect it to properly identify a live performance.
That’s great news! I don’t understanding why they cant be bothered to put this in the version log, instead of the useless ‘bug fixes and performance improvements’ note.
Almost done. They increased the UI friction for other services. Now you must make multiple clicks to open non Apple Music. You can't configure a standard service.
This is really annoying now. I was fine with having to do 2 clicks but making it inconvenient for me to open songs in my streaming service of choice is a pretty good way to never have me try the apple music service.
>Right now, the app only has one 3rd party SDK installed and that’s HockeyApp. Microsoft’s version of TestFlight. It’s unclear why it’s still there, but we don’t expect it to stick around for too long.
Because the current build & test pipeline uses it and it takes time to make non-breaking changes?
>On Android, Apple seems to be ok with leaking usage data...
Or, the Android team is lagging a bit ... in a company whose focus is iOS.
So Apple removed Facebook login capabilities or they just used the web-based login instead? I did this with a native iOS application before, just used the web-based login while checking for the completion hook and it was about the same experience as using all of Facebook's native SDK's while keeping the app size down and very little possibility for snooping on FB's side.
Ad SDKs have gotten much better about size. We show a decrease of roughly 5MB after the change. The real "hit" comes in the form of battery and network usage.
I wish there were some public data on the impact of removing those - app start latency, battery consumption, bandwidth, etc. I bet there are positive impacts for the customers other than just privacy.
Makes sense to keep the hockeyApp integration as it is an amazing tool for crash analysis and they still need that. Integration with crash analytic is a different type of integration than facebook, advertisment and the other stuff (crap) they have removed.
Although Google has purchased Crashlytics, so now one of the most popular crash reporting tools has Google Analytics as a dependency (and yes, it takes several explicit steps to turn off the default data-gathering that is unrelated to crashes)
Apple's crash reports are pretty good as well, they'll pop you right into the offending part of the code. But it doesn't have all of the fancy dashboards and such.
You cannot rely on that all users are reporting crashes. They might choose to uninstall your application instead. You need some kind of automated reporting in everything that is critical to you.
After Apple integrated with Siri, I discovered a nice, somewhat hidden feature which is open iTunes Store >> Hamburger Menu >> Siri to find a preserved history of my "what song is this?" queries. Even in loud environments I find asking my phone to tell me what song it is works well and is a little easier than opening an app.