New AcoustID website

Hey guys, I was doing a new design for the AcoustID website and as part of that, I changed the fingerprint/track pages. I think they should be much more useful now for detecting incorrectly linked recordings, and things like that. I’m also experimenting with a new way of displaying the fingerprint, instead of the raw bits, there is now a color “barcode” option, which seems much easier to read to me.

For example: Natural Blues by Moby | AcoustID

Perhaps the “Fingerprints” tab on the MusicBrainz website could directly link to this, since it’s more useful than the plain list of UUIDs.

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It’s beautiful.

Could it be changed so there is no horizontal scrollbar? (In 1× mode)

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Very nice. I use your brilliant resource a lot and once my brain retrains with the new layout I can see this is a lot clearer to get around.

I also agree that the “colour vs black and white” is much quicker to visually compare. Is that a setting that could be kept at an account level so it always defaults on? I tend to often wipe out cookies.

Very nice upgrade.

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This seems more intuitive to me, although I have to admit that I have never really understood how to read the fingerprints.

How would this affect colour-blind users?

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There is a toggle:
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Nice. But is there some cut-off for recordings with too many AcoustIds? I don’t see those fingerprint-graphics for Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer | AcoustID which could surely need some cleanup.

Yes, there is a cut off, but I might increase it or have it work so that up to N fingerprints are always shown.

I’ve now extended the limit, and I think I have even better version of the color bar. Less noisy, and still very clear when there is something obviously wrong.

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I’ll see how it could work, will need to experiment with it.

Very nice, cleaner and more readable and navigable and looks All Growed Up to boot.

Humble but meaningful request: could you please fix the link styling so that clicked links go back to showing clicked? I have launched many thousands of recording merges starting from your site and on long track lists it is invaluable to know where one has already looked.

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Thank you, I missed that. It’s fixed now.

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