Fingerprinting ... was Re: Thanks for MusicBrainz patch

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Stefan Derkits <stefan at derkits.at> wrote:
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> On 10/04/2010 11:29 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>> Hey Sergey,
>>
>> I just wanted to say a big "thank you!" for you MusicBrainz/MusicDNS
>> patch. Our whole team has been impressed by the speed and accuracy of
>> your work, and also about the constructive communication with you.
>>
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>> Thanks, and we'd love to continue working with you, if you want to :)
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>> Mark.
>>
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> Hey everyone,
>
> I did not try the MusicBrainz Patch yet, but I must say I'm also
> impressed about the Speed Sergey reacted to Feedback.
>
> For me there is one important Location where Fingerprints should really
> be, and that is in the Database, created via the Collection Scanner
> (because then we have many possibillities of new Features).
> Daniel Dewald, who is working on the lastfm Fingerprinting, wrote in a
> previous Mail that this is at the Moment not possible because Phonon
> can't output the Audio faster then normal Speed and Fingerprinting would
> take too long.
>
> So my Questions is:
> - -) Till now (as I understand), the Collectionscanner doesn't use Phonon
> and can only scan everything that Taglib can read. Wouldn't be Phonon
> just for Fingerprinting (in the Collectionscanner) be a not really
> needed additional Dependency?
> So wouldn't it be better to use liblastfm Fingerprinting [or maybe also
> MusicBrainz/libofa Fingerprinting] (at least in the Collectionscanner)
> without Phonon?
>
> Just seems a little unfair that MusicBrainz/libofa is in Trunk, but
> liblastfm Fingerprinting not because Daniel wanted to base his work on
> Phonon whereas Sergey just used xine or ffmpeg.

I'd say Daniel Dewald should use FFmpeg too.

The advantage is, we depend on it anyway (soon), due to Teo's
Transcoding patch. Plus, it's cross-platform, and well maintained.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org