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Identifying instrumental music.

I've been stream ripping some European internet radio stations.  I like these stations because they have high bitrates (192kbps-320 kbps) , clean gaps between songs (no crossfading or DJ's yakking over the music), but most of them don't have online playlists so if I don't recognize the music I don't know what they played.  If it has lyrics I can work backward to ID the song  and then confirm the band and version on Rhapsody.  But sometimes I hear a pure instrumental piece I like but I have no idea what it is.    Any suggestions on a way to identify it?

Thanks in advance.

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #1 –
Winamp's Gracenote lookup might help.

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #3 –
I recently saw this tagger suggested:

http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/

This was in another context, but it does say on their webpage:

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aikoz uses MusicBrainz, an online database of over 5 million songs. Many of these songs also have associated Acoustic Ids provided by MusicIP, allowing a song to be identified by the actual music, so it can do a match even if you have no metadata


It don't know if MusicIP are the only people to do "Acoustic IDs", but it sounds like "Acoustic IDs" from them or from someone else via either this or some other tagger that uses them might be the answer.

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Nick E on
I recently saw this tagger suggested:

http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/

This was in another context, but it does say on their webpage:

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aikoz uses MusicBrainz, an online database of over 5 million songs. Many of these songs also have associated Acoustic Ids provided by MusicIP, allowing a song to be identified by the actual music, so it can do a match even if you have no metadata


It don't know if MusicIP are the only people to do "Acoustic IDs", but it sounds like "Acoustic IDs" from them or from someone else via either this or some other tagger that uses them might be the answer.


I STILL don't understand -  doesn't the above imply that something would have had to embed the ID first? 

I thought there was a service on the web that lets you supply some music and it tries to match it up by sound.

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #5 –
Quote from: plnelson on
I STILL don't understand -  doesn't the above imply that something would have had to embed the ID first?


I don't know.  I'd guess not.  But how well it works in practice is another matter.  I did try MusicBrainz's Picard, which uses "PUIDs" -- which seem to be the same thing.  However, MusicBrainz Picard suggested that my John Williams guitar piece was Dolly Parton, so perhaps the scheme doesn't work too well.  But MusicBrainz is a pretty horrible database -- the worst of the lot -- and their Picard tagger is poorly designed, bloated, hideously un-Maclike, inscrutable, and lacking help files, so maybe I wasn't using it right.

But Jaikoz has a 30-day trial period, so why not download it and try?

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I thought there was a service on the web that lets you supply some music and it tries to match it up by sound.


Yes, I'd heard the same.  The name "what's that tune" was in my head, so I did a search on that:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8

There's a British-based web service that matches tunes with TV adverts.  There's also an Amazon web-service proof-of-concept thing.  The search also turns up a Yahoo Answers music section: you log on there and say something along the lines of "does anyone know the one that goes da-da-da dum?"  None of those would seem to be what you're looking for.

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Nick E on
It don't know if MusicIP are the only people to do "Acoustic IDs", but it sounds like "Acoustic IDs" from them or from someone else via either this or some other tagger that uses them might be the answer.


Last.fm recently developed command-line fingerprinter. Details here: http://blog.last.fm/2008/03/25/fingerprint...report#comments.
Download (Windows): http://cdn.last.fm/fingerprints/lastfm.fpc...ta2.1.win32.zip

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #8 –
maybe you put put a sample on this site :

http://www.watzatsong.com/EN/

And wait for some people to identify the tune !

Identifying instrumental music.

Reply #9 –
Quote from: plnelson on
I've been stream ripping some European internet radio stations.  I like these stations because they have high bitrates (192kbps-320 kbps) , clean gaps between songs (no crossfading or DJ's yakking over the music)


Can you please post some links to these stations?

Thanks!