Comments on: track upload sample code

By: plamere

plamere — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:16:32 +0000

Reid – yeah, we shall be trying improve things here.. stay tuned.

By: Reid Draper

Reid Draper — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:12:44 +0000

Any plans to eventually to eventually be able to make an analysis request with meta-data or a MusicBrainz ID? As Ben pointed out, slightly different meta-data or a different compression for the mp3 will cause a different hash.

By: Ben Bennett

Ben Bennett — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:13:24 +0000

Unfortunately the MD5 hash bit is a little less useful since it appears you take the hash of the whole file… ID3v1, ID3v2, etc. tags and all. So anything that touches a tag or fiddles the track metadata will cause an MD5 change.

It would be better if people took the MD5 hash of just the MP3 payload (after stripping out everything else) and sent up the bare MP3s for analysis… But I suspect that is not what people are doing.

-ben

By: plamere

plamere — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:56:43 +0000

that looks like a bug. Thanks!

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:07:01 +0000

Why is that quotation mark doing at the end of this line?

dos.writeBytes(“Content-Type: application/octet-stream” + “\”" );

By: plamere

plamere — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:29:50 +0000

Good point, I should have mentioned in my blog post that our track upload supports both uploading from a file (as described) and uploading from a URL. Uploading from a URL is much easier and less of a burden.

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:26:30 +0000

How about providing a URL to a track instead?