Using Mirage outside of Banshee?

[severe...@gmail.com]

I'm playing around with writing a library management application and
would like to use Mirage's acoustic modeling to identify songs that
sound almost the same as part of a method to find duplicates. Would I
have any luck doing this with Mirage (how indicative are its "scores"
of the overall sound similarity of the files, even at different
bitrates?) and what parts would I need? Just libmirageaudio and the
Mirage subfolder's project in the tarball? Also, would there be any
way to remove the database storage and anything that's not related to
just generating a similarity score for two audio files, to reduce the
number of dependencies that I would need to take care of on target
machines?

[Dominik Schnitzer]

Hi,

yes Mirage is also usable as a standalone library. If you look at the
source code you can see a Test/ directory, which includes a short Test
program and actually does what you want.

Concerning duplicates -- I guess Mirage could be easily used to identify
duplicates, but for real duplicate detection audio-fingerprinting should
be applied.

greetings,
dominik.