okay, "your phone always knows which song is playing" is an amazing party trick, Google

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(that's a feature on the newer Pixel phones)

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@reay Google Assistant has been doing song recognition for ages (and Shazam has been bought by Apple), this is always on and displayed on the lock screen separately from notifications

@noiob Cool option if wanted, though personally I'm not a fan of the mic always being on, so I'd just be shutting it down anyway.

@reay yeah, I only turned it on to try the feature, but it's not like I can control what it's listening to anyways. From what I know about song recognition it's different from speech recognition though, and I have hotwords for Google Assistant off

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