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    • rlkeeney
      rlkeeney last edited by

      Exactly what does "Song Fingerprinting and Tracking" do?

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      • rlkeeney
        rlkeeney last edited by

        So no one has an answer to this question?

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          poppop last edited by

          It's a concept borrowed from vinyl phonograph records. If you get fingerprints all over your favorite song, it will leave oils that will attract additional contaminants over time. This can cause issues with your stylus and cartridge where tracking is no longer perfect, causing distortion.

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            poppop @poppop last edited by

            @poppop Very loosely adapted -- in the digital domain, it's applying heuristic algorithms to the data of a track, presumably spectral content, duration, that sort of stuff, that can then be compared to a central database of this information. Your player theoretically can identify a song you are playing, and big brother can track what songs you are playing, perhaps?

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            • rlkeeney
              rlkeeney @poppop last edited by

              @poppop I have "Finger Printing and Tracking" turned on.

              Does Strawberry write something to the files each time they are played?

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              • jonas
                jonas @rlkeeney last edited by

                Nothing is written to the files. The fingerprint is stored in the database the first time it sees the song. If a new song is discovered, it calculates the fingerprint and looks in the database if it has an entry for a fingerprint with a song that has a different path and no longer exists, then it uses that database entry for the newly discovered song so saved data isn't lost.
                There is no "Big Brother", Strawberry never shares any data anywhere.

                See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint
                and
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcoustID#Chromaprint

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                • rlkeeney
                  rlkeeney @jonas last edited by

                  @jonas Does Strawberry use the Chromaprint method?

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                  • jonas
                    jonas @rlkeeney last edited by

                    @rlkeeney Yes

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                    • rlkeeney
                      rlkeeney @jonas last edited by

                      @jonas Thanks.

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