Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] discussion question

[Sam Clegg <sam superduper net>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:44:20PM +0200, in7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
> I still don't understand how musicbrainz works when trying to tag an 
> audiostream. This is especially interesting because different versions of the 
> same song don't result in the same audio stream - especially when compression 
> is used. (Think about ogg vs AAC vs 192kB mp3 vs 128kB mp3 versus different mp3 
> encoders vs ...)

It uses a generic acoustic fingerprints. 

http://www.musicbrainz.org/products/trmgen/download.html

Like a hash function for audio. 
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