The current version of MusicBrainz Picard (v2.6.3) does not save the fingerprint (created by the external commandline tool fpcalc.exe) inside the track.
For more detailed help please have a look here:https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/v2.6/en/tutorials/acoustid.html
In MB Picard, one action is “Generate Fingerprints”, the other is “Submit AcoustIDs”. I wonder why it is not “Submit Fingerprints” - why only the AcoustID gets stored in a tag but not the fingerprint.
As far as I understand, an AcoustID is a cluster of fingerprints. A fingerprint not similar enough will be clustered into another AcoustID.
When I submit an AcoustID and later discover that it was submitted to the wrong recording, I can unlink the entire AcoustID, even though I only would want to…
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