Matching fingerprints with breaks

Skipping Record

Finally: A Skipping record (within the first two minutes of a track)

There are actually two skips on my quite worn record of Live at the Woodstock Festival by Ravi Shankar.

  • The first one at about 14s (only background noise and faint applause - before the first word is spoken and no sound of an instrument to be heard then)
  • The second is about 1:12 (kind of intro,¹ the skip hits the end of a note - I have not noticed even one skip until I compared the fingerprints)

¹) the begin of this work is probably not called an “intro” - apologies for my lack of knowledge of Indian classical music

The fingerprint of the skipping record was compared to the most often submitted fingerprint² of this track (210). It’s most likely a CD version according to metadata submitted to the AcoustID.

²) EDIT: verified fingerprint for CD version

Each time 15 steps are missing, a full rotation of the record takes 1.8 seconds (33⅓ rotations per minute) → 1 step = 0.12 secs

I also looked in an audio editor:

For the next half second a long wave disturbance follows the jump, but that’s about 15Hz and should be beyond audibility. Listening; The frequency of the skip is lower than the following crack (right channel only) but not much louder.

The second skip looks similar. The condition improves after the first minutes and it looks worse than the record actually plays → see runout images :slight_smile:

EDIT: missing rotation, measured with Audacity:


Unsurprisingly, there is a difference of exactly 1.8 seconds = 1 rotation with 33⅓ rotations per minute.

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