Just found out about this, seems to recognize my obscure music, at least so far…
Good detection, and I appreciated the free trial.
But, I don’t think I’d use it enough to warrent paying on it monthly. I did however find an app called Audire that is open-source, uses the API of Shazam, and is also free. Works very well.
It says that the program depends on a non-free network service. Does that mean there is a subscription or other type of payment involved?
TL;DR: F-Droid isn’t referring to that, but yes, the app requires an API key for a paid service to perform unlimited requests.
Long answer:
When using the expression “non-free”, F-Droid refers to something not being free software, where the term “free” doesn’t refer to its price (free as in beer), but to it giving its users freedom to do what they want to with it (free as in speech).
However, this application in particular relies on a service called AudD, which is a paid service based on the number of API requests done. So while the F-Droid “anti-feature” list doesn’t refer to its price, this app still relies on a paid service and requires an API key upon launch (although it seems you can do a limited number of requests without one).
