• From: London
  • Registered: 2012-08-17

Topic: Is MusicDNS/AmpliFIND alive enough to get info on PUIDs?

Hey everyone. I have an album (from a CD-R inscribed "some russian band") I've been trying to identify for about a decade (can't even decipher the language, have played it to people from all over the world including linguists - no one knows except that it "sounds European". Example here: http://thereitwas.com/files/music/mystery-song.wma). I was pretty excited to come across fingerprinting in Picard, but it's not finding anything with these tracks.

I can get a PUID for each song in the album using genpuid. So MusicDNS/AmpliFIND must have processed this music before. But none of the PUIDs are in MusicBrainz or, indeed, anywhere reachable by Google.

I know that this stuff is all deprecated, but I doubt that any open source fingerprinting effort would have this obscure song, and that a PUID exists for it gives me hope.

My question is: Is there some way still to query the AmpliFIND server with a PUID and get some track information? There are some flags in the genpuid program (for instance -rmd) that are meant to return track metadata, but that doesn't work no matter what song I run it on (even common ones). Any other way or any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

tobek's Website

  • Registered: 2010-12-17

Re: Is MusicDNS/AmpliFIND alive enough to get info on PUIDs?

Have you tried it with AcoustID or echoprint?

  • From: London
  • Registered: 2012-08-17

Re: Is MusicDNS/AmpliFIND alive enough to get info on PUIDs?

I just tried both AcoustID and echoprint, but unfortunately neither returned any results. (I did confirm that I had them working by successfully using both services with other songs.) Alas. I guess there are no freely accessible truly massive databases of fingerprinted songs - at least since the passing of MusicDNS and until the open source guys get off the ground.

tobek's Website

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: Is MusicDNS/AmpliFIND alive enough to get info on PUIDs?

You might want to fix your linked URL. You left a parenthesis and period in the link and I can't download or listen to the song as a result. (I tried fixing the URL myself and it 403'd on me.)