I did some tests this AM. I chose one of my Eric Clapton albums which wasn't "matched". It was There's One In Every Crowd ripped from vinyl to FLAC.
I found that one track has a slightly different title to what appeared in Wikipedia and on Amazon so I changed the tag on my FLAC to match. Deleted the album from Google play and re-uploaded. It is now a clean matched mp3 without the scratchy intro. This tells me that Google operate the matching at a folder/track level i.e. if one file in a folder is wrongly tagged then the whole folder is physically uploaded and the whole album is simply a transcoded version of my FLAC scratches and all. In this case the error was simple to spot - the track in question was tagged as We've Been Told (Jesus Coming Soon) when it apparently should be We've Been Told (Jesus *Is* Coming Soon). Blondie's Plastic Letters is also unmatched and a quick scan of the tracks suggests to me that the culprit is (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence Dear which should be (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence*,* Dear Capitalisation seems to have been accounted for in the algorithm but not missing characters. I wonder what would happen if I took a bunch of say 10 random mp3s or FLACs stuck them together into one folder and tagged them as the ten tracks from say Abbey Road. If the tagging was correct would Google present me a nice hires set of mp3s that were actually Abbey Road ? Dare I ? Note. Before someone says surely the track length matters. No. I mentioned Best of Cream and White Room earlier. The track Google give you is the album version at over 4 mins but their library says it is the 3 minute something single version. When you play it the track continues playing after the track end point !! *Vortexbox LMS 7.8 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s - Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 & B&W P7 *Office* - RPi -> Sony TA FE320 -> Celestion F10s / SB3 -> Onkyo CRN 755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105058 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
