NAME

Audio::Ofa - Perl interface to libofa, an Acoustig Fingerprinting library

VERSION

This is version 1.01

SYNOPSIS

This module provides a direct interface to libofa. For not-so-lowlevel and more practical assistance with audio fingerprints see Audio::Ofa::Util.

    use Audio::Ofa qw(ofa_get_version ofa_create_print);

SUBROUTINES

ofa_get_version

Retrieves the version of the installed libofa. Returns a string like 0.9.3.

ofa_create_print(data, byteOrder, size, sRate, stereo)

From the libofa source code comments:

    data: a buffer of 16-bit samples in interleaved format (if stereo), i.e. L,R,L,R, etc.
                 This buffer is destroyed during processing.
                 Ideally, this buffer should contain the entire song to be analyzed, but the process will only
                 need the first 2min + 10sec + any silence prepending the actual audio. Since the precise silence
                 interval will only be known after a couple of processing steps, the caller must make adequate
                 allowance for this. Caveat emptor.
    byteOrder: OFA_LITTLE_ENDIAN, or OFA_BIG_ENDIAN - indicates the byte
               order of the data being passed in.
    size: the size of the buffer, in number of samples.
    sRate: the sample rate of the signal. This can be an arbitrary rate, as long as it can be expressed
                 as an integer (in samples per second). If this is different from 44100, rate conversion will
                 be performed during preprocessing, which will add significantly to the overhead.
    stereo: 1 if there are left and right channels stored, 0 if the data is mono
    
    On success, a valid text representation of the fingerprint is returned.

One should note that size is the byte length of data divided by 2 (as in 2 bytes as in 16 bit), regardless of stereo.

The XS code will throw an exception if size is too large, to prevent a buffer overread.

CONSTANTS

OFA_LITTLE_ENDIAN

OFA_BIG_ENDIAN

SEE ALSO

Audio::Ofa::Util provides utilities to read audio files and to look up audio fingerprints at MusicDNS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_fingerprint - The Wikipedia article about acoustic fingerprints.

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/); either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.