[ID3 Dev] compare mp3's irrespective of tags

[Mitchell S. Honnert]

Kieth, you might want to have a look at MusicBrainz at 
http://musicbrainz.org/.  They are a service much like FreeDB or GraceNote 
that provides metadata for audio tracks.  (MusicBrainz is free.)  Their 
library includes a feature to generate a unique identifier based on a binary 
hash of the audio data.  I'm not sure how it works nor have I tested it, but 
it seems like it's what you're looking for.

As a quick aside, I handle my dupes by doing my best to tag everything 
consistantly, then doing searches for tracks with the same Artist, Album, 
Title or the same Artist and Title.  There may be some dupes lurking 
somewhere in my library, but I tend to find them eventually as long as I tag 
everything well.

Mitchell S. Honnert
www.UltraID3Lib.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Reynolds" <chief_87 at yahoo.com>
To: <id3v2 at id3.org>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: [ID3 Dev] compare mp3's irrespective of tags


> Hello,
>  I'm wondering if there's any APIs out there that return the playable
> binary data of an mp3 (minus the ID3 tags).  I have a large library
> with some duplicates and simply hashing the files to find duplicates
> isn't working (as I've updated a good number of ID3s and I changed the
> filenames).
>
>  If there is no such API can you point me in the right direction to
> include all ID3 tag fomats in my coding?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
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