Category Archives: Programming

Chromaprint plug-in for GStreamer

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

It’s been a long time since I learned some new framework (or even wrote some real code), so I decided to write a GStreamer plug-in that will wrap libchromaprint and make it very easy to generate Chromaprint fingerprints in GStreamer … Continue reading →

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Acoustid moved to a new server

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

Since I announced the Acoustid project, I got over 1.1 million fingerprint submissions (mostly from MusicBrainz editors), covering about 580 thousand unique MusicBrainz track IDs. In the background I was running a process that imported the raw submissions and merged … Continue reading →

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Binary fingerprint compression

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

While working on the Acoustid web service, I had a hard time deciding how to send fingerprints to the server. The fingerprints are vectors of fairly large 32-bit numbers. Sending the numbers in binary (which would be ideal) is not … Continue reading →

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Acoustid Fingerprinter (BETA)

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

Since my last Acoustid-related post, I was working on a GUI application for submitting fingerprints. It’s far from finished, but I think it has reached the state where it can do something useful without breaking on trivial problems. Please who … Continue reading →

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Minimal Qt/CMake template

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

I’m starting working on the GUI submission tool for Acoustid and I wanted to use CMake instead of qmake for building the application. I couldn’t find anywhere a simple example of what do I have to put into my CMakeLists.txt … Continue reading →

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