Thanks for the explanation and removal of the frustration factor. These are all live concert recordings, before the announcements have been added. They are what I call "concert masters." After the tape has been dubbed and edited and the announcements added, I call it a "broadcast master." Both are present for many concerts in this large collection. At some point, I should be able to figger out which.01 is the same as which.02. It slows me down but I now have to listen through an anonymous piano recital until I recognize a piece which I can then use to find another such recital, with announcements, that has the same piece in the same place in the program and that I've cataloged to the item level. If not fer sure, I at least have many fewer choices.
A live Barlow & Morgenstern would be great. I wonder how this could be done.
Steve Smolian
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Shazam only works with commercially-released recordings that have been added to the Shazam database. Assuming these tapes of Steve's are personally-made live recordings, and not mass-duplicated tapes, it won't work in this instance. It does do a great job at matching what's in it's database, however!
https://support.shazam.com/hc/en-us/articles/204462958-What-type-of-music-can-Shazam-identify-
I don't know of any software that can identify a piece in the way Steve would like, though that would be a highly useful tool!
-Melissa
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Ron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Download "Shazam" for your smartphone and let it listen to your speakers!
> Does a great job!
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> Ron Roscoe
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steven Smolian
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 11:37 AM
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> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Identifying classcial music by desktop
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> I have hundreds of tape reels with classical live concerts and no
> announcements This includes solo recitals, baroque music by composers
> whose names probably end in "I" and the like.
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> If I can identify the sequence of works, I can often tie them to
> printed programs from which the boxes becam separated and by using other resources.
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> Not being a pianist, I don't know the entire Chopin ouvre, Vivaldi
> from end to end and lots more.
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> Is there a web site I can play my speakers into via a mike and
> converter to identify lots of classical music?
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> Steve Smolian
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