Horton shazamrecognizer

Horton plugin that uses Shazam to recognize songs as laid out in SongRec.

Description

In spirit, this is an Android port of SongRec. It is a Gradle module that can be dropped in to Horton as-is to achieve recognition with Shazam. It is not officially supported by Horton for legal reasons; I did not want to deal with potential cease and desist letters.

Had it been just a simple module that communicated with Shazam's servers, I would have deleted it. What makes it special is that it cross-compiles Rust to Android. SongRec is written in Rust and, besides communicating with their servers and providing a GUI, it contains an algorithm that turns an audio file into a fingerprint which Shazam requires to recognize songs.

Cross-compilation description, instructions and install script are available in songrecfp.

Horton integration instructions

If you want to see the module in action, you can integrate it into Horton yourself.

1. Create a new Android library module (e.g. shazamrecognizer)
2. Copy all files from root of this repository to the new module
3. Change dependency injection code in horton/app/di/AppModule to provide ShazamSongRecognizer instead of the current implementation
4. Run the shazamrecognizer/songrecfp/install script to cross-compile fingerprint code to Android
5. Congrats, Horton now uses Shazam to recognize songs!

Valuable resources

• Mozilla guide
• suve's ramblings