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by jgalt212 727 days ago
I don't know if I agree with this. I've had Google and Shazam nail songs that were barely audible to my human ears.
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With background noise? My wife and I had an interesting unintentional experiment regarding this a few weeks ago at a Slowdive concert. She doesn't know the band well and asked me the name of each song as it began and then also asked Google's song identifier service. I knew all of them and Google couldn't even produce an answer, incorrect or not. Either because of the crowd noise or a live version is sufficiently different from any recorded example it has heard before.
> or a live version is sufficiently different from any recorded example it has heard before

Probably this.

Yes with background noise, but I have never attempted with live music.