Ah ha Thor! This is most interesting (to me anyway). Insofar as I was asking about something that searched for the titles of tracks on albums etc. - which is what I need right now to help me ID a track (I think) was called "Congo Square" - not the actual musical (or not) content. But, just like you it seems, even as I was typing it, I started thinking about what you're talking about. And specifically does such a thing already exist? In that we have this phone service here in the UK where you can ring a number, play the music to the phone and it texts you the artist and track title back. Or it mostly does anyway, sometime you catch it out but I know people who stayed up late one night playing obscure AE tracks etc. to it and it got them all, sometimes I've tried it from a gig and it hasn't worked (you don't have to pay if it doesn't do the ID) but that may well be due to the distortion / background noise. So I was wondering if that was an automated search with a set up that I bet took some tweaking or do this outfit just have a bunch of captive muso nerds that ID the tracks?
F > -----Original Message----- > From: Thor Teague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 July 2007 15:43 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) track identifier future gadget machine > > There was a copyright protection tool developed by this guy > in California recently that uses pixel identification to > troll through internet sites like youtube and myspace and > finds copyrighted films--its identification is sophisticated > enough that it can find copyright films ripped from DVD > (OBVIOUSLY) but it can also find cam rips, even with a shaky > camera, even with people walking in front of the screen. I > hear it does well regardless of compression and pixel > size/aspect ratio. > > I don't know how related they are, but on the level of 1's > and 0's it almost seems like it could be reverse engineered. > You could feed a snippet into a search engine (discogs) which > it uses to search its library and find a match. If it were > engineered well enough, maybe it could handle input files > that were pristine or recorded with a handheld device like a > microcassette or a cell phone. So if you had a recording off > the radio or some other waveform source, and there were a > database with this engine and a lot of waveform data to > attempt to match it up to, you could theoretically get > anything ID'd, limited only by how comprehensive the database is. > > That's a Goliath-size order of a 'ware, but who knows. Just > daydreaming here... ;) > > On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Afternoon (well it is here) all. I've been quiet as I'm > moving PCs at > > the mo. Got mail on one and everything else on another and > unable to finish off (long story). > > Anyway want I want to know is does anyone know of a site on the > > Discogs tip but where you can search by the names of tracks - even > > those that weren't a release in their own right but are just album > > tracks? A lot to ask I know and maybe the huge amount of > data concerned (imagine searching on a title like "I Love > You"!) means it hasn't come along yet (though I guess it > will, maybe Discogs II is just around the corner). Be bl00dy > useful though. >
