No, it didn't. There are "hashing techniques" specially made for audio - "audio fingerprinting" so to speak, like Relatable's TRM and Gracenote's MusicID which do a great job of it. They identify the file correctly no matter what the source is - lossless audio CD, or even 128kbps MP3, you get the same fingerprint.
I've tried TRM personally through MusicBrainz, and ran it on around 1000 of my MP3s, some of them really horrible quality, and it managed to identify 99% of them (TRM fingerprint correlated with actual metadata is stored at MusicBrainz). I was surprised, but yes, it did work. And this technology is rather old too, I'm surprised not too many people know about this.
And the article specifically mentions this fact:...The experts' claims center on technology for detecting copyrighted works through "fingerprinting" (sometimes also called "hashing") technology that identifies songs by analyzing the content itself. Such technology, which is provided by several firms including Audible Magic, GraceNote, and MediaGuide...
When searching for a suitable localization system for my robotics project, I found a few research papers which detail the methods used to determine the location of a wireless node to an accuracy of 1 meter.
Here are the papers, and here is the site that contains both the papers.
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And you call it recording, you're even more backward than your parents! ;)
...how much he paid to swing this deal? ;-)
No, it didn't. There are "hashing techniques" specially made for audio - "audio fingerprinting" so to speak, like Relatable's TRM and Gracenote's MusicID which do a great job of it. They identify the file correctly no matter what the source is - lossless audio CD, or even 128kbps MP3, you get the same fingerprint.
I've tried TRM personally through MusicBrainz, and ran it on around 1000 of my MP3s, some of them really horrible quality, and it managed to identify 99% of them (TRM fingerprint correlated with actual metadata is stored at MusicBrainz). I was surprised, but yes, it did work. And this technology is rather old too, I'm surprised not too many people know about this.
And the article specifically mentions this fact: ...The experts' claims center on technology for detecting copyrighted works through "fingerprinting" (sometimes also called "hashing") technology that identifies songs by analyzing the content itself. Such technology, which is provided by several firms including Audible Magic, GraceNote, and MediaGuide...
When searching for a suitable localization system for my robotics project, I found a few research papers which detail the methods used to determine the location of a wireless node to an accuracy of 1 meter. Here are the papers, and here is the site that contains both the papers.
0.4% of the population who use the Internet = 0.4% of 1,000,000,000 = 4,000,000. Surely a sizable amount.