Since my last Acoustid-related post, I was working on a GUI application for submitting fingerprints. It’s far from finished, but I think it has reached the state where it can do something useful without breaking on trivial problems. Those who used the old Last.fm fingerprinter will know where I got the inspiration for the UI. :) There isn’t much functionality. You copy&paste; your Acoustid API key , select which directories to scan and let the application do its job.

Some news on the Acoustid project… New website 🔗At first I wanted to do everything on the server side in Java, but as I was delaying it, I realized I better quickly just hack something up in PHP and then maybe write a better solution later. So I spent last weekend working on the website and came up with this . Nothing fancy, but the I needed the website only for API key management.

After asking for fingerprint test data in my last post about Chromaprint I received about 270k fingerprints from. This helped me to perform some larger tests on the proof-of-concept lookup server I had implemented using Java and PostgreSQL. I had to do some technical changes, but the main idea seemed to work pretty well. I wasn’t sure about this when I was working on Chromaprint, but now I believe that I can realistically run an audio recognition service.

After several months of reading research papers, learning and weekend coding, I’m very happy to make the half-finished code of my audio fingerprinting library public. :) I’m doing this mostly for selfish reasons, because it will force me to stop thinking in “hacker mode” and hopefully properly finish it, and I also hope to get some help and feedback from other people. There is nothing for regular users yet though, just for developers or people not afraid of the command line.