Pixel's Now Playing graduates to a dedicated app with offline song ID

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Google has turned Now Playing into a standalone Pixel app on the Play Store, moving it out of Settings to enable faster updates and greater visibility. The app still identifies songs entirely on-device using a fingerprint database (no audio is sent to the cloud), and Google is testing a refreshed UI with clearer album art and easier navigation between the song history and recognition features.
Topics:technology#apps-and-software#music-identification#now-playing#on-device-fingerprint#pixel#play-store
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