• Registered: 2012-07-05

Topic: Picard can't find any music

Hi,

for my dad I have converted some music cassettes to MP3.
Now I want to have tags in those files (about 54 cassettes, each 45 minutes, approx. 12 songs).
I have splitted the files via MP3DirectCut so I have approx. 540 songs to be tagged.

Now I have tried to tag them automatically with MusicBrainz Picard, but for the first ten files I had there was no match.
With my android mobile application "Shazam", 9 of those 10 files were found correctly.

Why did musicBrainz find no match (some song are really popluar, Phil Collins for example)?

Does musicBrainz create the AcousticID over the whole file? (where Shazam only needs to record a small part of a song to identify it)
Is there a possibilty to force Picard only to take a small part of a song?

Regards,

Dodger

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Picard can't find any music

Aside from the difficulties of getting good quality audio matches from cassettes, when you manually cut mp3s you alter their lengths and thus their acoustic fingerprints. Both PUID/AmpliFIND and AcoustId are length-sensitive fingerprinting solutions and designed to offer accuracy, rather than fuzzy matching.

And no, neither of these fingerprinting/analysis solutions were designed with fuzzy/partial matching in mind, so it's not possible.

voiceinsideyou's Website

  • Registered: 2012-07-05

Re: Picard can't find any music

Hi voiceinsideyou,

thank you for this information.
So MusicBrainz seems not to be the right tool for my issue.

Do you have a hint for me which tool uses a fuzzy matching process to solve my problem (like Shazam but without listening to the music via mircophone)?

Dodger

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Picard can't find any music

Depending on how technical you are, you could take a look at EchoPrint: http://echoprint.me/ But I don't think it updates your tags for you - just identifies the song.

At one point it was expected that EchoPrint might be integrated into Picard, but I'm not sure what has happened to this.

voiceinsideyou's Website

  • Registered: 2010-12-27

Re: Picard can't find any music

Could you not use the search box in the upper right of picard to search for the album on musicbrainz, then once you find the right one, link it back to Picard and drag your files over to it as needed to tag them?

  • Registered: 2012-07-05

Re: Picard can't find any music

No, thats not possible because the cassettes were recorded from radio or magnetic tape. So there is no album for each cassette.
The echoprint-solution seems to be fine but the database is really small by now and additionally I am not that familiar with programming.

Dodger