MrSinatra;425594 Wrote: > interesting that you can put a value in the tag that essentially serves > as a unique identifier.
But it's a supposedly evil "nonstandard" tag.... > > maybe SC should support that in its core first, b4 they try other > multiple property recognition methods. > SC supports MB tags. > > question though; does the MB ID tags differentiate between say > remasters of the same song? the doors for instance have at least three > different releases, and who knows how many differing pressings, of the > same songs. would MB ID tags know, and tell apart, one from the other? Yes, it does. Every disc has a unique ID. Every track has a unique ID. A PUID is a 'audio fingerprint': this is non-unique. (Ie, the original release of a track and a re-release on a remaster or greatest hits release may have the same fingerprint: in other words, the tracks are not different enough for the fingerprinter to 'hear' the difference. There is a certain amount of fuzziness to the fingerprint in order to ensure different encodings usually map to the same fingerprint, so it may be an audible difference to a human, but not to the fingerprinter.) So you can rest assured that this ID: 67696e9c-d251-4a56-91c2-0c2e0681aaee Uniquely refers to "Three of a Perfect Pair" by Adrian Belew on the album "Side Four". And nothing else. The ID d59237a6-2701-4a62-93d9-ef4435952b85 is the same song, but done by King Crimson on the album of the same name. 2326244e-cb6c-42af-a64e-aaf681b05936 is the same song, but on the album 'Absent Lovers', as c6c6c701-7d84-4337-a58a-96eff92d95e5 is the same, but on Heavy ConstruKction, and 17a2efac-4c1f-44f8-b1a6-eda2ffbfe213 is the same song but on the album Sometimes God Smiles: The Young Persons' Guide to Discipline, Volume 2. With these tags, you can use Erland's Trackstat plugin and it will keep statistics tied to the unique ID for the track, not the pathname: which means you can rearrange your library at will, and Trackstat will magically follow the changes since the index didn't change, only the path. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62556 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
