Ike
2/20/2007, 03:22 PM
So apparently the reliance of ITunes on CDDB has yielded a surprising development. Classical Pianist Joyce Hatto appears to have only taken recordings from other people and only slightly digitially changed them and called them her own.
This was caught as CDDB identified her CD's as being from someone else.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/itunes-fingers-musical-fraud.html
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Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
iTunes had stumbled on a hoax. To identify albums it calculates a 'discid' from the duration of the tracks and then connects to the Compact Disc Database online. The Gramophone critic tried another disc - Hatto playing Rachmaninov - and again iTunes identified it as belonging to someone else. Again, the named recording - by Yefim Bronfman - sounded no different.
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Hear the similarities for yourself....with the left channel being Hatto, and the right being the artist flagged by CDDB as the originator.
http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html
This was caught as CDDB identified her CD's as being from someone else.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/itunes-fingers-musical-fraud.html
[QUOTE]
Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
iTunes had stumbled on a hoax. To identify albums it calculates a 'discid' from the duration of the tracks and then connects to the Compact Disc Database online. The Gramophone critic tried another disc - Hatto playing Rachmaninov - and again iTunes identified it as belonging to someone else. Again, the named recording - by Yefim Bronfman - sounded no different.
[QUOTE]
Hear the similarities for yourself....with the left channel being Hatto, and the right being the artist flagged by CDDB as the originator.
http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html