Google's Gemini chatbot falls short in a number of areas. One of them is recognizing songs that might be playing.

The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask “what song is this”, you get a reply like “use apple’s Shazam”.

They say Google assistant music recognition was working so well and super accurate.

Although I was never able to have it work. When I ask “what song is this” I can only get one of this two results:

  1. Sorry, I didn’t understand (90% of cases)
  2. Search “what song is this” on Google

My use cases are:

  1. In car listening to radio. I never have it work.
  2. Know which song is playing right now on the device when I’m using headphones. It never worked but it should be trivial, you already have all the metadata already. My iPod touch could do this super reliably and 100% offline TWENTY YEARS ago. It was so useful.
  • Eager Eagle
    -4•7 months ago

    if that was the case they would have just embedded gemini into the assistant app and raised the middle finger to all their user base

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      11•7 months ago

      There’s a big bonus and promotion for the Gemini’s product manager. That means GA is on the death row.

      They’re already removing features from GA, so “reaching parity” is faster

      • Eager Eagle
        -3•7 months ago

        yeah, that’s shitty

        not knowing any better, I’d guess these “improvements” are effects of some of those layoffs

    • ThrowawayOnLemmyEnglish
      9•7 months ago

      Umm… they’re doing this. I literally was prompted the other day to test out Gemini as my assistant app. Granted this was my fuckup by opting in, but I thought it’d at least have the basics… Now I can’t set reminders, or look up my calendar info with my voice like I used to. Not being able to identify songs is just as equally ridiculous. It barely searches.

      • Eager Eagle
        -4•7 months ago

        yes, we know it’s limited - but can’t you go back to assistant? I have the option

    • @[email protected]English
      9•7 months ago

      They ran Gmail and Inbox concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

      They ran Google Music and YouTube music concurrently before axing one and not reaching feature parity.

      Etc.

      So why would that be the case?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 months ago

        Don’t remind me inbox is gone! I want that sweet sweet mail organization back in my life.

      • Eager Eagle
        -5•7 months ago

        that only implies they’re axing gemini, which would solve the “problem” posted above

        in other words, the post complains about something that hasn’t happened yet

        just keep using google assistant

        • @atrielienzEnglish
          3•7 months ago

          They mean YouTube music and Google play music concurrently and we still don’t have feature parity for Google play music features on YouTube music.