14 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm have a gorgeous new app for doing audio fingerprinting to sort out the metadata around music - The double-translation of similar track names to audio fingerprints is a bloody fascinating way to get good solid real-world identifiers around objects like songs. I'm installing it immediately.
Simon Willison : Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.
philgyford : Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Replay Music records music off the radio and automatically tags it - Uses audio fingerprinting to figure out the beginning or end of the songs as well
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