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killerswan on June 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Perceptual Hashes Work

Well, one could use a variation of this technique to compare tons of other things... Music?

bct on June 3, 2011 [–]

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Audio_Fingerprint

The Picard MP3 tagger uses this kind of thing (and MusicBrainz' database of tracks and audio fingerprints) to identify files.

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