Tag Archives: fingerprinting

How does Chromaprint work?

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time, but never really finished it. I hope it will help people understand how does the Chromaprint algorithm work, where do the individual ideas come from and what do the … Continue reading

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Acoustid moved to a new server

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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Acoustid Fingerprinter (BETA)

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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Acoustid updates

Some news on the Acoustid project… New website At first I wanted to do everything on the server side in Java, but as I was delaying it, I realized I better quickly just hack something up in PHP and then … Continue reading

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Acoustid

After asking for fingerprint test data in my last post about Chromaprint I received about 270k fingerprints from. This helped me to perform some larger tests on the proof-of-concept lookup server I had implemented using Java and PostgreSQL. I had … Continue reading

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