From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 14:13:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D370816A418 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F296743D4C for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:13:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4465B5DBA; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:13:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OAa48x1+NKT5; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:13:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-201-170.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.201.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3634B5C9D; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:13:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <448EC879.1010603@mac.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:15:21 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyrre Nygard References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060613145307.023662b0@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060613145307.023662b0@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanning MP3 files for skips X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:13:43 -0000 Kyrre Nygard wrote: > I'm curious whether there's a tool out there that will scan through > audio files looking for patterns that resemble skips and other nonos > in the world of music. > > I have MD5 checksums for all my MP3 files, but that doesn't > guarantee that they were fine before the checksums were generated. Sort of...GraceNote and a few other companies ("Shazam", seems to be from India?) sell a service where music files can be fingerprinted and identified. Good audio files ought to ID as what they are; bad music files with skips or garbage will fail to ID. -- -Chuck