Bop Spotter: “a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below”
Good share
Now that it’s a thing, UMG is going to find that corner and start shaking people down for performance royalties.
How do people come up with these genious ideas?
This is right on the line of creepy surveillance and interesting public art project. I kind of like the idea but not a fan of the fact that it’s recording in stealth. I wish it were more transparent about it. Most people wouldn’t care anyway and it removes some of the discomfort of listening in on a bunch of strangers.
Scroll down and listen to the recording for Never Gonna Give You Up. Someone knows where that box is.
Scrolling through the list. The timestamps are too regular, meaning it is interpreting a lot of ambient noise as music.
Or it’s a contrived post with fake data
Very possible. But wanted to presume bad coding over outright falsification.
You can listen to the recording of each entry by clicking on it. Sometimes it does seem to be only noise but maybe the machine has better hearing than I do…
