• Registered: 2011-08-08

Topic: Acoustid

I been reading about Digital File Identification. It would be nice if Acoustid can Utilize a multi-step process which not only uses stream identification but also textual information analysis from the file’s embedded tags, file name, directory path, and other related files in the user’s collection. Therefore not only individual  tracks can be matched to albums, but also groups of songs. If you don't know what I mean, here's the page on what MusicID does: http://www.gracenote.com/products/musicid/

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2008-03-07

Re: Acoustid

I can not speak for the AcoustId development, but IMHO AcoustId is an "audio fingerprinting" implementation, which tries to recognize the audio data itself. Using the file metadata in addition would be what a client program would do. It's basically what e.g. Picard or other taggers do.

By keeping both things (audio recognition and metadata analysis) separate you can mix them. You don't have to use AcoustId with MusicBrainz but can change both the audio analysing and the metadata provider.

That does not mean that it wouldn't make sense to add such functionality to some AcoustId client tool, I just think it is not the main focus of AcoustId itself.