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[tranceConscious]

I would really like to see support for that great MusciBrainz feature in the future.

Is there a plan for it?? Or is it out of the question??

[KingSparta]

me too

[Cheburashka]

And me.

[Myron]

Me three!

Never heard of it before, but it looks like a great idea.

Does it onlyh work with MP3's?

What about album art?

[KingSparta]

it is a fingerprint of a digital file

MC already has such a option, they only difference on the out side is with MusicBrainz you have more fingerprints, and you can see the generated fingerprint #

so i don't see it coming true

[tranceConscious]

Well actually, it is a nice idea (I'm talking about the MusicBrainz project), but practically it's crap.... you get everyone being able to submit and change tags etc and it's a total chaos.

I've been thinking about it and I think it could be done a lot better if there was no actual user intervention. Only user action would be to suggest or accept suggestions, and also customize which fields he wants to check/suggest/accept.

Imagine MediaCenter collecting all the fingerprints (automatically and in the background of course) of all it's on-line users. And also track#, artists, albums, track names. (just the basics for starters)

Then imagine this fantastic algorythm running on the server.
It checks fingerprint A.
Fingerprint A has 350 occurences.
On 100 of them the Artist is "Bill Laswell".
On the remaining 250 it's either empty or wrong.
So the correct artist for fingerprint A is "Bill Laswell".
So it suggests to the other 250 users to change to the correct artist.

And so on, if you catch my drift.

I think that would be a fantastic way of doing it.

[KingSparta]

I actually attempted to do just that, but i don't have the knowledge or the expertise to pull it off i was hoping to gain access to J. Rivers fingerprints, but JimH came over my house and flattened my 4 tires on my Yugo.

I have talked to the programmers at MusicBrainz but they were unwilling to create a ActiveX control

I have contacted 4 other top developers in the Audio field and they were unwilling to take on the project or the cost was prohibited. I was willing to spend $800 to get something that worked like MusicBrainz so i could create a free plug-in. I am not a Visual C Programmer.

[Cheburashka]

There's already libraries for musicbrainz that you can import, and the present version is written in python, which is an easy to understand language. 

The folks who are saying that MC already has something like this, or that its chaos, just don't get it, I think.

The MusicBrainz database is very, very large, very, very good, and very, very consistently styled.  Its a fantastic database.  It does have album art in it, although the tagger application doesn't yet include it.

I use the MB apps to tag my files for use in MC and iTunes.

[Myron]

it is a fingerprint of a digital file

MC already has such a option, they only difference on the out side is with MusicBrainz you have more fingerprints, and you can see the generated fingerprint #

so i don't see it coming true

Every time I've tried using fingerprint to ID a track in MC it's been WAY off.  I haven't tried with MusicBrainz, so I don't know if it's any better.