>TrackStat uses Musicbrainz Id tags, not PUID's. PUID's are just a way >for the Musicbrainz tagging software, for example picard, to find the >appropriate Musicbrainz Id more automatically. You need the Musicbrainz >tag to get the extra functionality in TrackStat and I think neither >MusicIP nor genpuid will write any Musicbrainz tags. To get Musicbrainz >id's you need to use puddletag, picard or some other tool that support >retrieval of Musicbrainz tags. > Thanks. That makes more sense now. Still seems a bit arbitrary to me, in that PUIDs cannot be unique ID's if they are created from n minutes of audio, and having processed my library, I have duplicate PUIDs. However, they are still useful - it has identified some actual duplicates that mean I can trim my music collection down a bit. As long as they will not be used for uniquely identifying content, I'm happy ;-)
>I believe PUID's are almost but not completely unique. Musicbrainz >switched from TRM to PUID in their picard tagger because PUID's were >more unique. > >> I seem to have ~5000 tracks that do not have unique PUIDs. >> >Sounds like a lot, I've got a feeling something is wrong if this really >is different songs. > >Just out of interest, are they very similar or are we talking about >completely different tracks with a lot of silence in the beginning or >some other kind of similarity ? > That was about 2500 tracks that were duplicated to achieve ~5000 hits. Some of these really are duplicate music content, usually where I have ripped a CD single and also the album, and thus the title track is a duplicate, or where I have ripped compilation albums. This is useful for finding duplicate songs, but often the lengths are different - different mixes, maybe remastered versions, etc; eg. on some compilation albums, tracks are cross-faded into one another, so I can't eliminate the duplicates, and need to treat them as a different unique version of the song. I may even rate the song versions differently. A lot of hits were very similar, except for a little extra silence padding on the end of tracks, etc. >Are we talking about cuesheets ? I don't use cuesheets very much, as songs defined by cuesheets are not mixable, and other software doesn't support cuesheets. Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
