Re: [Freetantrum-devel] Example question/request

[Mike S. <mg...@co...>]

> > Ok, this may be a bit much to ask, but could anyone send me an example of
> > how to get *JUST* the media ID from a given song without connecting to the
> > net?  I'm trying to form a database and dupe checker based on the
> > freetantrum project.  Any help would be appreciated.

I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. A songprint is generated from the
audio. It represents what the song sounds like. eTantrum's servers
associate songprints with Media IDs. 

Example: If the same song is encoded twice, with different bitrates or
background noise, the two clips will generate slightly different
songprints. 

So let's say the server contains the following data:

Song A, songprint 41e9bca7
Song B, songprint 50b1cea4
Song C, songprint ba3c910e

You scan a song and generate the songprint 40e9bca6. You pass that to the
server, and it says, "Well, it's pretty close to Song A, not very close to
Song B, and not anywhere near Song C. It's probably Song A." The server
returns "Song A", which is the Media ID.

So you either need a network connection, or you need to license technology
from eTantrum to look at two songprints and determine how similar they
are.