If that's true, then I don't personally care whether they are constantly capturing audio and discarding it. While that isn't as ideal as, you know, not doing always capturing audio, if it saves half a second when the user decides to capture audio and stops when the app is closed, I can understand that tradeoff.
I don't have Shazam installed on my laptop and honestly can't imagine I ever will, so this is academic for me.
Exactly. The sole purpose of the app is to capture background audio and analyse it. Don't want that? Don't run it. This seems to be a storm in a teacup. We're not talking a Dropbox-like system hijacking here.
I don't have Shazam installed on my laptop and honestly can't imagine I ever will, so this is academic for me.