Hi Syed, nice findings. Do you also have an Idea, how to design a back-end that may work for any online source? I have thought about using scripting similar to the controller scripts. Do you think it will work?
Kind regards, Daniel Am 20.03.2016 um 00:48 schrieb Syed Afsahul: > Hello Sir, > I was going through the documentation of Musicbrainz ,Discogs and > other music database provider, learning about APIs in general and > backend of websites. > > Here are few things which I came across :-- > > Musicbrainz uses acoustic fingerprinting to identify a music.So, it can > fetch metadata for tracks with absolutely no metadata. > > Musicbrainz can't generate the fingerprint of a track on it's own.It > uses Acoustid (https://acoustid.org/) to generate the fingerprint and > recognize the track. > Now, Acoustid uses the full track to generate the fingerprint, so , a > remix with pretty much the same start ( 30s to 1min) as that of the > original will get a different fingerprint and henceforth refer to > different tracks.Also, tracks with a difference of about 10s in their > length are given different ID in acoustid's database.So, Musicbrainz > won't confuse between two similar track. > > Discogs is a good music database with public API.With the basic metadata > like track name and artist(obtained from Musicbrainz), we can get other > metadata from Discogs for cross checking. > I am reading up on what metadata exactly we need to provide Discogs to > get other metadata and finding other helpful music databases. > > Kind Regards, > Syed Afsahul Haque > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
