Fingerprinting ... was Re: Thanks for MusicBrainz patch

[Stefan Derkits]

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> Yes, probably libofa is not actively maintained (last changes where
> made in March of this year) , but It doesn't mean that It doesn't
> work. And according to musicbrainz.org this is the only solution used
> by MusicBrainz. Yes, may be lastfm Fingerprinting better (i don't
> know), but in case of using It in MusicBrainz tagger system we get
> ugly puffed code, where one part of tagger uses one system, other part
> - another system. More then that MB tagger would be depend on lastfm
> service implementation, because of user authentication problem, so If
> you don't have lastfm subscription, then you may sit and relax 'cos
> you also don't have track identification system.

Of course I didn't mean to use liblastfm Fingerprinting with MusicBrainz
Tagging System (even though it does for some Songs return MBIDs), but
with the last.fm API, where you submit the Fingerprint and it returns a
FingerprintID & XML encoded Metadata (Artist, Album, ...).
It also knows some Songs (did see it with at least one Song today) where
the MB Tagger doesn't return a good Result.
But after giving all of this a second Thought, I must admit that for
tagging Songs, having both Solutions available is probably not so bad,
because maybe last.fm knows some Songs that MB doesn't and vice-versa
(even though after a small tryout I must admit that last.fm found Songs
that MB didn't find or where MB returned wrong Information, at least on
around 5 Songs).
But the Databse of course should only store one FingerprintID, which one
is a thing of carefull

Track Identification is available without a last.fm Subscription, try
out the Example Application in liblastfm.

And libofa was last changed in September 2007 (upload Date that you can
see here: http://code.google.com/p/musicip-libofa/downloads/list ) and
the SVN is completly empty ... so I call that more then "not
maintained", I would call it abandoned.

@Sergey: Btw, a small Bugreport ... when I update the Tags via MB and
then have the new Tags in TagDialog and then click on Save & Close, the
Collection View doesn't update and it still shows something under e.g.
"Unknown Artist". Is it only me having this Bug or can you confirm and
fix it? :)

Stefan
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