Differences on fingerprint softwares/packages

[thwaller]

Lukz is best to answer completely, but if you look here: https://acoustid.biz/, you will read that it is somewhat integrated to MusicBrainz, but is separate. At least that is my interpretation. A working relationship.

[outsidecontext]

@gregoryopera

Isn’t “AcousticID” an unrelated project to the MetaBrainz projects (i.e. by different people)?

I’d never heard of it until now, but now that I’m looking at the website, I’m struggling to see how there’s any connection to the MetaBrainz projects…

It is a separate project, created and maintained by @lukz, former MusicBrainz developer who worked on all different parts of MB.org And beside this the connection is of course that MusicBrainz and MusicBrainz Picard use AcoustId as a fingerprinting solution; and AcoustId makes use of MusicBrainz metadata.

[gregoryopera]

Ah thanks for clearing that up.

[thwaller]

@lukz

One fingerprint can be assigned to multiple AcoustIDs. Not the same fingerprint ID, but identical fingerprint with a different ID. That is because AcoustID also tracks the duration of the songs submitted with the fingerprints. That is mainly for performance reasons, but it means that two identical fingerprints end up on different AcoustIDs.

So this is a known side effect (sacrifice) of efficiency, am I understanding correctly?

Do you think / see it possible that something might give some motivation to supply us with a new and revised (and perfected) acoustID system? The more I play with this, the more I like it… especially if there was a “proper” implementation to use. Not that it is entirely bad now, I am just agreeing that there are some issues.

Also, do you think there might be a utility made, or a function added to Picard, to allow for fingerprints to be generated, without having a lookup run to the MB database, and having the option to embed this data into the files themselves? Or even a reference file like extraction logs or dynamic range report logs? I could see this as an amazing tool for an end user. I wont clutter with my crazy imagination, but imagine if I had a player/software for my collection and when I add a new CD, it would look at my collection and identify via fingerprint which recordings are already in there. Or using it for a better tool, where I “shazam” a song I hear, it identifies it and knows the fingerprint, and tells me if I have that recording in my collection. I am getting excited. Call it “acoustify” instead of shazam.