Chromesthesia

The extension is available in Chrome web store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromesthesia/gocpionhjoififoliaelkfheedcafgin
or Microsoft Edge Add-ons at
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/chromesthesia/jbolklncikkponmchgncibegnlcpkdph

How does it work?

Play something and the Chromesthesia icon will appear. Click it and it will try to recognize what is playing.

Currently these recognition services are supported:

audD - No account required. 10 requests free per day.
ACRCloud - Requires an account but there is a free plan.
AudioTag - Requires an account but there is a free plan.

Thanks

Uses shine to do mp3 compression.

Known issues

Spotify link does not work

Try to enable the "Remember my choice for all links of this type" in the launch application dialog.

ACRCloud complaints that it can't generate fingerprint

Try to increase capture duration in options. It should be at least 10 seconds.

Help wanted

• Improve interaction and graphical design
• Write more matchers

Development

Clone repo and use "Load unpacked extension..." on the chrome extensions page.

To auto reload on changes you can run devd in the repo root devd -l . and uncomment reloadOnChange(); in background.js. Have a look at dummyMatch.js.js and matchers.js for how to test matcher results.

Privacy

The extension itself does not track usage or collect any personal information. But the services used to do music recognition might track of collect information. Please see the privacy policies for audD, ACRCloud and AudioTag for more information.

License

Chromesthesia is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for the full license text.