That's a toughie. I was going to say, how could you not know all the music in your library, but then I realized that I have songs on mp3 CDs in my car that I don't know because Doug burned them for me and put stuff on there that he thought I'd like. But maybe it's odd that the orphaned songs happened to be ones you don't know. Are they all by the same artist?
Unfortunately, I don't think software currently exists that recognizes individual songs by their waveforms; all the track info you can pull off the web looks at the data of an entire album and matches up songs based on that context (the totality of track lengths etc.)... so my suggestion would be to play the songs for everyone you know and someone is bound to know what they are.
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Date: 2007-04-18 04:59 am (UTC)That's a toughie. I was going to say, how could you not know all the music in your library, but then I realized that I have songs on mp3 CDs in my car that I don't know because Doug burned them for me and put stuff on there that he thought I'd like. But maybe it's odd that the orphaned songs happened to be ones you don't know. Are they all by the same artist?
Unfortunately, I don't think software currently exists that recognizes individual songs by their waveforms; all the track info you can pull off the web looks at the data of an entire album and matches up songs based on that context (the totality of track lengths etc.)... so my suggestion would be to play the songs for everyone you know and someone is bound to know what they are.