Sound Search
It seems like nothing shown at Google I/O 2012, the convention for developers of Google, has gone unnoticed. There have been many news of the version 4.1 of Android, better known by the nickname Jelly Bean, and little by little they are coming to light curious and useful details that will make this version the most complete to date. One of these novelties is a curious widget or direct access that will come pre-installed in this operating system to know what is playing at all times
This is the function called Sound Search, and it is nothing more than a kind of Shazam created by Google to complete your music tool. But what specifically does this tool? It has been created to listen to the music that is playing at a certain time, recognize it andinform the user of their title and interpreter Something very similar to what does Shazam or SoundHound However, Google has its own music store, Google Music, so when identifying a song, redirects the user to said market of music to purchase
Although his name is Sound Search in the version of Jelly Bean for developers that has been distributed appears to be codenamed Google Ears (ears).It was shown briefly during Google I/O 2012, but it has not been revealed until now thanks to the investigation of a XDA user, one of the most popular developer communities today. In fact, this user managed to extract the Sound Search app from his Galaxy Nexus updated to Jelly Bean and distribute it for use even in terminals with Android 4.0, better known asIce Cream Sandwich
The application itself functions as a widget or shortcut That is, an application to place on any of the desks of the terminal. In this way, it is very fast to start the recognition of the currently playing song. Sound Search, or Google Ears, displays the phrase: What”™s this song? (what is this song?) Thus, just click on the widget begins on recognitionA short time later it shows the title and artist of said song.
If you click again, once you know the song that is playing, you will access the music section of Google Play We say if I would access because, as of today, Google Music is still not available in our country, being United States the only one that can make use of this music market. With this, all that remains is to do the purchase process to download the song in the terminal and thus be able to take it and listen to it at any time and place, and as often as that the user wants.
In short, a curious and useful tool from Google Even more if it arrives pre-installed by default in new terminals. For now it can only be used in test mode, and under the responsibility of the user, installing it in a terminal with Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich It is available on the XDA forum with step-by-step instructions although in English Hopefully, if Google wants to bring us its music market, it will end up distributing this tool as aapplication for all other versions of Android
