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How does Windows Media Player ID an OLD vinyl rip?

scott wurcer

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Cleaning out bins I found an extra copy of an old CDR that I made for a friend over 15yr. ago. It was a 1966 Takoma guitar sampler AFAIK never released in this form on CD. There was no meta-data put on the disk, it's a straight vinyl rip. WMP immediately identified it correctly after a few seconds of the first cut (sort of creepy). I did separate the tracks in the correct order. Pattern match to discogs database, the track lengths are not exactly as listed though?
 
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That is kind of creepy.
 

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Cleaning out bins I found an extra copy of an old CDR that I made for a friend over 15yr. ago. It was a 1966 Takoma guitar sampler AFAIK never released in this form on CD. There was no meta-data put on the disk, it's a straight vinyl rip. WMP immediately identified it correctly after a few seconds of the first cut (sort of creepy). I did separate the tracks in the correct order. Pattern match to discogs database, the track lengths are not exactly as listed though?

It must be reaching out to some "mothership"/database, a la Shazam or SoundHound, and exercising some audio-fingerprinting.
 
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It must be reaching out to some "mothership"/database, a la Shazam or SoundHound, and exercising some audio-fingerprinting.

Looks like someone took the trouble to tag this album and add it to the database, two other LP's that I ripped and did not edit into cuts show nothing. Power Media Player even correctly titles the individual tracks.
 

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I'd really like to know. It would simplify so many Discogs ID hunts.
 

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This was implemented while I was managing the team. :) And yes, it does use a song ID hash to look up the track in the database.

Very sophisticated. Your old company is roaring ahead these days.
 
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