Glad you got to the bottom of it. The tags are simply ID3 (for mp3
files) and vorbiscomment (for flac files), which are the standard tag
formats for those two file types. The tags genpuid creates should be
easily visible in any tag editor (but for the record I've been using
the freeware app called simply "Tag" on Mac OS).

If you've been using genpuid on Windows and the file is an mp3 file
then you should see three tag fields created by genpuid:

MusicMagic Fingerprint
MusicMagic Data
MusicIP Data

All three will have long strings of seemingly random ASCII characters.

If you archived the analysis via MusicIP Mixer then you will only see
the first two tags listed. For a FLAC file the fields are similar but
named "FINGERPRINT", "ANALYSIS" and "MUSICIP_DATA" instead (with
MUSICIP_DATA missing if you used MusicIP Mixer instead of genpuid).

If you used genpuid on linux/MacOS I have no idea what those tags look
like--I assume they are the same but I could never get genpuid working
properly on those platforms so I can't say for sure.

Oh, and one more thing to watch for, some tracks may show a
"MUSICIP_PUID" tag (probably shows as "MusicIP Puid" for mp3 files. If
you see that tag then it means for that track genpuid/MusicIP Mixer
matched the fingerprint with one on the server and the contents of the
"MusicMagic Data" tag was fetched from the server and not generated
locally. I have very few files that show a PUID tag but the less files
I feed to genpuid en masse the more PUIDs seem to match.

If all you are seeing is the Fingerprint tag then it means that
analysis was not completed or not archived. Make sure you're using the
-archive switch with genpuid. And for troubleshooting, turn on the -xml
option and then genpuid will write the analysis tag to the xml file in
addition to the id3/vorbiscomment tag.

Hope that helps.


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