Burning CD with song titles?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Mar 21 11:19:06 UTC 2008


Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 10:30 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> It actually uses the _exact_ length of the track
>> (presumably amongst other things).
> 
> I guess we were both wrong :) 

Well, no...

> Musicbrainz, at least, uses an acoustic 
> fingerprint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint

If you'd said Musicbrainz, I'd have agreed with you :-)  Musicbrainz (in my
limited experience, which was a few years ago) does a really good job of
identifying songs.  cddb ...  doesn't.  What it does do, is give you a
fairly short list of possible matches, that is usually easy to reconcile to
your actual tune.
-- 
derek





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