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Increasingly seeing failure to get acoustic id

#1

It seems that more and more newly released albums are failing to get acoustic ids. Usually I can tell when it will happen because it hangs for a very long time. However, if I leave it alone long enough it will eventually report:

Apr 4, 2011 6:17:37 PM: INFO: A new acoustic fingerprint has been
submitted to AmpliFIND for song 1 file /home/mark/music/Britney 
Spears/Femme Fatale/09 - Trouble For Me.flac, wait 24 hours before 
retrieving acoustic id.

Guess what? There will not be an acoustic id available in 24 hours, or ever.

This has happened on three albums recenty:

The Strokes - Angles
Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lulabye
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale

and some others I can’t remember.

I don’t know what is going on but I don’t think it is simply a matter of no acoustic id available.

#2

Hmm, if it isnt available the next day it seems AmpliFIND are not processing the new fingerprints as they should be, I’ll see what they have to say.

#3

I am experiencing this as well. This is with 3.11

-steve

#4

Had a reply, there was an issue one of their servers, should be resolved wiithin the next couple of days

#5

They had a server issue that has lasted weeks and is still ongoing? I’m not buying it. They may have had server issues but that is not the cause of this issue. I still think it is a bug of some sort. It would make sense if acoustic ids could not be generated for any file but a server outage doesn’t explain why some would work and some do not.

I’m trying to debug the process locally. It looks like genpuid starts mipcore with an “fp” option and then soon after mipcore runs with an analyze option that produces output in /tmp

I’ve also noticed that the mipcore process hangs a lot. I sometimes have to open a shell and kill mipcore because it is running long after jaikoz has given up on ever getting an acoustic id. In fact, it appears that if I cancel the process and close Jaikoz mipcore will continue to run indefinitely until I kill it manually.

The hanging of this process can make it appear as though acoustic ids are not working for any files because if it is hung it will not allow other files to be processed.

#6

I thought you meant it was happening for all albums, they reported a server error to me but yes Im sure genpuid is not bug free but neither would it be any worse than a few months previous, it hasn’t changed.

#7

I’m seeing a ton of these, which thankfully fail instantly:

13/04/2011 16.47.59:com.jthink.jaikoz.manipulate.musiciphelper.PUIDQuery:generatePUID:WARNING: MusicIP Error Stream:12:connect(4) failed with error 61 - Connection refusedMusicDNS servers cannot be reached right now.

However, Jaikoz issues no useful error message in the GUI, simply saying that it couldn’t match 163 of 163 songs (or whatever).

#8

Are you still getting that ?

#9

When I tried some musicbrainz fingerprinting the other day it worked.

However, I’ve told it to use up to 4 CPUs on OS X and mipscore was instead running 4 threads on 1 CPU, yielding no performance improvement.

#10

Thats wierd, can you see if there was 1 or 4 genpuid processes ?

#11

One genpuid process with 3 threads, one mipcore process with 4 threads using 100% CPU. However, best I can tell, those 4 threads are executing on one core – it should be using 400% CPU, not 100%.

Also, while mipcore is cranking away, my load average never goes above 2.5 or so, and this on a busy desktop system running a ton of stuff. If mipcore were pegging the CPU I’d expect to see load above 4.

I updated to 4.1.0 NGS before re-testing this.

#12

Okay, in the near future we are going to move to a new fingerprinting system called http://acoustid.org/ . This has a number of advantages, one of them being the fingerprints can be created locally without accessing the fingerprint server. So this problem will resolve itself.

The only problem with Acoustid at the moment is that it database is not as large as the AmpliFIND one, so please help by submitting your fixed songs using Action/Remote Correct/Submit Musicbrainz/AcoustId Pair.

#13

I’ll VNC home and submit my entire collection now!