The Magic of MusicBrainz:

How accurately can a computer figure out what your songs are? MusicBrainz is a Music Database that has teamed up with Relatable to use its TRM format to “fingerprint” music and thus help in its identification online. The following is what MusicBrainz suggests is on the CD. How accurate is it? Try out MusicBrainz at http://www.musicbrainz.org/ !

Disc 1 (10/17 possible ID's)

1. Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down (f07b6b79-15f0-447c-a167-98657b240f9a)

2. Billy Joel - Piano Man (ab9f89ae-ced1-43e4-a029-6e99bbe7aba1)

3. Unidentified (No Matches) (ba9031ca-718c-4c8a-895b-f1b9e2f2cb46)

4. Unidentified (No Matches) (d962a5fc-c226-493d-877d-3098d46bb80e)

5. Taking Back Sunday - One-Eighty by Summer (243f86dd-bdec-4d29-8159-7bd235a84925)

6. Hard, Hard Times - Jim Joyce (b7868296-4b65-45b6-9cae-9ba3ec2c9418)

7. Unidentified (Too Many Matches. Reel Big Fish? Vertical Horizon? Billy Idol?) (b1a4c19b-7986-493a-b06d-6317bc730ebf)

8. ...of a revolution - That Was a Crazy Game of Poker (b61cd9ec-fec5-4dcf-9766-23f76dd025a5)

9. Unidentified (No Matches) (12804ba5-121c-4eed-8107-99b35ede95f9)

10. Hot Water Music - Choked and Separated (d0831166-4bd3-4a7d-97fb-e93cd5132191)

11. Unidentified (No Matches) (1eb41430-4cae-44e6-84e3-111b35c27272)

12. Unidentified (Too Many Matches. Alice Cooper? Matchbox 20?) (524a032a-7fd6-476f-8ec0-9ac45bd9a6bc)

13. George Thorogood and the Destroyers - Bad to the Bone (5fdbeb76-5fe8-4212-a338-a20795a48da7)

14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (f93d5064-6f8b-481f-b7c6-efd0816aab53)

15. Unidentified (Too Many Matches. Europe? Nickelback? Ramones?) (89247bb1-ca62-4507-b235-302c28997093)

16. Tripping Daisy - Trip Along (c6727ac5-1b5d-4dc4-8a97-17cc7efc4919)

17. Utada Hikaru - FINAL DISTANCE (0f80349c-2e02-4bf7-b689-968fd95ba448)

Disc 2 (11/17 possible ID's)

1. Nobuo Uematsu - Aerith's Theme (Orchestrated Version) (d3901f05-7179-4e58-abeb-95d126ce2d5e)

2. Unidentified (Too Few Positive Matches) (034a9ee5-6371-4cc0-aca5-9d9d2cc52b9a)

3. Gang Starr - Full Clip (51f98b7e-669a-4d74-b16c-e87ab32a119d)

4. Unidentified (No Matches) (772b99f2-19d6-4939-bf14-eccefc8c24a3)

5. Yianna Katsoulos - Les Autres Sont Jaloux (6e37a0b0-96ab-49b6-9103-281cca83d889)

6. The J. Geils Band - Give it to Me (97a1331e-1092-4ed2-b477-4274bd765bb5)

7. Unidentified (TRM match, not length) (4a69a77d-83fe-4e31-bd18-dc2a17d3a3a7)

8. Juno Reactor - Laughing Gas (0fcf5007-1390-4bb7-b29f-552184eeecdb)

9. Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown (3efbc1d9-3815-4c28-b4ca-d7e7694cc784)

10. DVDA - Now You're a Man (bf34ced6-8194-46d5-a5a1-7fb5dad2597b)

11. Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain (2c1c8292-7a2e-4ec7-9b1f-88cac8dc6e65)

12. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (24e0b6b9-8791-448a-9d94-5814368fd77e)

13. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling (21b2906e-b524-42e7-b177-3f3630334a8c)

14. The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (72b9a0d0-b57b-414d-944d-ca0119a4aacd)

15. Unidentified (No Matches) (fcac40b1-ce69-49d4-ac7a-b10575eb4231)

16. Unidentified (Too Many Matches. U2? Weird Al?) (7189b3d7-6c60-401b-8526-bd7c48514002)

17. Unidentified (No Matches) (c7674e2c-8074-4730-87bc-297baf72c354)

Disc 3 (2/3 possible ID's)

1. Unidentified (No Matches) (dd6ac7cc-e28b-4c1e-9383-eb4f26236ddf)

2. TaQ - Holic (04156b5a-6ae4-4ddb-8113-4a6fc203e7c2)

3. Dream Theater - Act II Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On (5374f7bc-a123-48b2-aab0-ca9eb14893be)

Ian Jacobi

2004-09-27T22:15:40