Is it the one that "google now" uses, or "google assistant?" Are they the same? I don't even know with google anymore man I just can't keep track of this shit.
Google assistant has a music identification feature now (up until recently it did not).
Now is still there, but the search feature that used to be on the launcher is just a web search now (can't do anything fancy with it anymore, that's reserved for Assistant).
Pixel 2 has a music identifier that is always listening and will place what song is playing on your lock screen. It does this with a local database and does not send audio data to Google.
> It does this with a local database and does not send audio data to Google.
Do you have details on this? I'm honestly quite surprised; I'd imagine the fingerprints to enough songs for that feature to be usable would take up quite a bit of space.
The one on Pixel 2 is done in the background on device, but it has a small catalog of titles. You can explicitly ask the Assistant for all the other songs.
