Hi Mindy, Going by my experience with the masters, in most cases, the problem can be broken down to something quite straight forward.
TAG v1 that appears at the very end of the file is a 128byte structure. The 127th byte refers to "Genre". Genre is used to broadly describe the kind of music encoded in the files. Eg: Death Metal, Punk, Metal, Black Metal, etc. To me, this information, in a way, gives me an idea of the "rhythm and pace" of the music. If you are looking at Tag v2, look for the TCON frame identifier. My suggestion would be for you to do look for files with similar genre settings...even if Director does not give u access to this info directly, you could go in for straight forward binary data handling...shouldn't be too much of a hassle.... :) You could also check with you TA/Prof on this... Hope this helps.... Cheers/Anand -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buzz Kettles Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 1:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Sound recognition and comparison At 8:24 PM -0500 11/25/03, you wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I'm in a director course at Purdue, and my professor has just assigned >my group a new project. It seems impossible to me (especially since we >have 2 weeks to do it), but I'm hoping someone can give me some >direction. Our task is to create a player to stream MP3's that works >with digital rights management and allows users to search for songs that >sound similar to the one they are listening to in terms of rhythm & >pace. It's the sound recognition that has me stumped. I believe id3v2 >contains BPM that I could reference, but I didn't think it was possible >to read anything but v1 tags in director. If anyone could point me to >some references, I would really appreciate the help. So far, I can't >find anything. > >Thank you in advance! :) > >Cheers, >Mindy [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
