FPCALC - digital sound analysis

[Daiman2020]

Downloaded and tested, its working, thanks

[sveakul]

Downloaded and tested, its working, thanks

The compatibility with these later versions of fpcalc.exe from the Chromaprint site and MusicBee has become problematic.  As of this date and MusicBee 3.4.7567, only the version originally posted by Steven at the beginning of this thread works.  I have swapped back accordingly.

Update:  as of version 3.4.7568, MusicBee is working FINE with the latest fpcalc.exe from Chromaprint!  Grab the MusicBee patches from the Global Moderators' sigs (if you have the Portable or Installer versions) and fpcalc 1.5.0 at the Chromaprint site (https://acoustid.org/chromaprint) and take advantage of 9 years of fine-tuning.

[TheGoffy]

Hi All!

First time posting, with thanks for the brilliant program!

One trick for less technical people is to make sure it is in the MusicBee folder in Program Files, not a MusicBee folder elsewhere. For example, in Windows 10 there will be a "Music" quick link with a "MusicBee" folder in it... but this is the WRONG place to put the file. It needs to go in the MusicBee folder with the executable. If you don't know where this is, you can right click on the shortcut you use to launch MusicBee and select properties and it should tell you.

Hope this helps a few people!

-Goffy

[phred]

One trick for less technical people is to make sure it is in the MusicBee folder in Program Files, not a MusicBee folder elsewhere.

This is not necessarily so. With the Portable version the MB directory can be anywhere. Typically someone who is using the Portable will know where the executable is. The Store version installs to some convoluted directory which -may- be Program Files, but perhaps in Windows Apps. With the Store version it's unlikely the user has access to it.

[sveakul]

AcoustID has released an updated version of the Chromaprint fpcalc.exe component, version 1.5.1 dated 2021-12-23:

No functional source code changes.
Fixed some compiler warnings.
Rebuilt the fpcalc binaries with FFmpeg 4.4.1.

You can download it here:

https://github.com/acoustid/chromaprint/releases/download/v1.5.1/chromaprint-fpcalc-1.5.1-windows-x86_64.zip

To update, extract fpcalc.exe from the folder inside the zip and place that file inside the MusicBee main folder, overwriting any existing version.  I have tested it and is working fine with MusicBee 3.4.8011 P (Windows 10 x64 21H2).

If you are running a 32-bit Windows, you need to stick with version 1.5.0 which has a 32-bit version still downloadable here:

https://github.com/acoustid/chromaprint/releases/download/v1.5.0/chromaprint-fpcalc-1.5.0-windows-i686.zip