Audio fingerprint database creation and query

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24 points·jcr··5 comments

A guy called Giancarlo Pascutto has a super library for this.

https://code.google.com/p/libfooid/

Code looks great, but this library requires some sort of frontend to be functional, not to mention that the code hasn't updated in years (probably not since Gian-Carlo's initial release).

audfprint comes with a functional commandline interface for managing such a database, at least in basic form. While I get that this sort of thing can conveniently be written in Matlab, that choice won't help with adoption of the tool. I hardly know of anyone with a Matlab runtime ready to go for random tools.

So torn between a (possibly outdated) library, and code written for an, let's say unusual, runtime, neither of these two really appeal if I wanted to build a de-duplicating audio library.

He doesn't need to update it because it just works. I've been using it for a project for years and while there has been all kinds of mayhem there libfooid has worked like a charm from day 1.

jacques, I don't know your use-case or libfooid very well other than reading some of its docs, but if you're just doing identification, libfooid certainly seems like a(nother) good way to get the job done.

If you want to do more involved audio analysis and classification, libraries like essentia [1,2] and gaia [3] might be really helpful foryou. Then again, they might be over-kill for your use-case.

[1] http://essentia.upf.edu/

[2] http://records.sigmm.ndlab.net/2014/03/essentia-an-open-sour...

[3] https://github.com/MTG/gaia

My use case was automated undoubling of audio files that are from the same source but compressed with a very large variety of compression software.

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