VLC and Picard use the same system? Why doesn’t Picard show the same good matches that VLC could find? I had used VLC player before and ALL files showed up with the proper name/artists! That is to say: half of the files I threw at it came back with no results So I just took a gamble and I copied it to home/.config/Musicbrainz directory, pointed Picard to it, got my API key(?) and HURRAY!! something worked. To make a long story short: Instead of installing chromaprint I downloaded the 'fpcalc… ' file from the forementioned page, unpacked it and, again… how/where to install? “Most Linux distributions also have their own packages for Chromaprint.”Īaah, very good, I started my Linux package manager (Yum/DNG) and looked for chromaprint, installed it and … and what now?Įeuh… tell Picard where to find “it”, what is “it”, Various files (python scripts?) with “chromaprint” in the name, but which one to choose? None did work… Pressing the download button in the Picard options dialogue led me to the download page of AcoustID where I could see a number of “chromaprint…” files, but also the note: get an AP key (what is that, I’m not a developer !).download and install the fingerprint calculator.

In the help documentation I did not find any mentioning of the fact that you have to : I installed Picard on a Linux Fedora 23 system. I had quite some trouble getting the AcoustID / fingerprinting to work in Picard.

Here some remarks and a question from a (Musicbrainz/Picard) newbie,

What is vlc media player fingerprint