Re: [abcusers] ABC, AHC, Do-Re-Mi

[Laurie Griffiths]

> I rather suspect that too much information is being discarded
> here, and that you will tend to end up with hundreds of hits,
> all with very similar scores.
> 
> Phil Taylor

There are two mechanisms of info discard
A. Quantising.  Easy to fix, just use more bits per note.
B. The actual order of the notes (what's that joke about a
    pianist never playing a wrong note - simply the right notes
    in the wrong order).  Hard to fix.

2. If this method gave a first cut that very quickly eliminated (say)
90% of the candidates it could still be very useful.  You would
then be able to (roughly speaking) use an algorithm that was
(say) ten times slower per tune to do the "real" comparison.

Laurie


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