I don't want to hijack the thread or dampen efforts to get Shazam to the N900, but maybe it would be a good idea to make a call for developers to make a Shazam equivalent ? The Maemo community has some mighty talented developers, if a critical mass of (technical) ideas is achieved, I think it is not at all impossible to have something distinctly Maemo-ish and not depend on the commercial interests of Shazam.
Attila77 has a point: Perhaps add an app with Jamendo and/or other similar services integrated? I like how I can search Jamendo , play songs, torrent them (legally!), and even donate to the artist in Rhythmbox under GNOME.
Nothing against Shazam, which I hadn't heard of and may or may not use with an n900 if ported, but I do think the other idea has merit.
I don't want to hijack the thread or dampen efforts to get Shazam to the N900, but maybe it would be a good idea to make a call for developers to make a Shazam equivalent ? The Maemo community has some mighty talented developers, if a critical mass of (technical) ideas is achieved, I think it is not at all impossible to have something distinctly Maemo-ish and not depend on the commercial interests of Shazam.
I doubt that the community would be able to provide the backend server infrastructure needed to run a service like Shazam...
And we don't need to reinvent the wheel every time just to be "open" and "commercial interest" free
I doubt that the community would be able to provide the backend server infrastructure needed to run a service like Shazam...
And why is that ? Nokia or publishers might very well get interested in sponsoring infrastructure if they are presented with a working solution, just as they are sponsoring the infrastructure for maemo.org and many other things.
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And we don't need to reinvent the wheel every time just to be "open" and "commercial interest" free
So, how do you explain this Maemo thing at all ? We could be all just as well running Windows Mobile by your rationale.
