# Echoprint for music sections
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [July 7, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956 "2013-07-07T08:48:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@loek17](https://forums.plex.tv/u/loek17)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956/1 "2013-07-07T08:48:49Z")
Let my start by saying that plex is a perfect solution for movies however music isn’t working perfect in my opinion. Maybe we can improve this by integrating echoprint. A scrapper using echoprint could be a start but in my understanding it also can also be used to supports smart playlists. It is a (in most cases) free en open source protject.
[http://echoprint.me/](http://echoprint.me/)
What does this do?
Echoprint is a music fingerprint or music identification service. It listens to music signals and tells you what song is playing. It’s backed by a huge database of music that grows with the community and further partnerships. On launch we’ve partnered with Musicbrainz.
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### Author:  [@scurrie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/scurrie)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956/2 "2013-07-09T01:31:29Z")
Hi, this would be a great addition to this post [http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/51085-music-video-handling/](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/51085-music-video-handling/)
More likely to gain traction with consolidated voting, would you mind adding your great idea to the above post?
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956/3 "2021-06-08T01:15:10Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate (though more generic)
> [@Content-based file matching (Fingerprints)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/content-based-file-matching-fingerprints/673716):
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> As of now the step from a video file to an identified title is 100% based on the file name. The process is finicky and fragile – it causes problems and lots of effort for users, as shown in the forum, where file mismatching is a recurring topic. The current process also forces users in [a corset](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/) how to name and organize files. The suggestion is to make the process for video identification content-based via fingerprinting. Plex already uses fingerprints for music. Shazam and iTunes Match are p…
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/echoprint-for-music-sections/37956/4 "2021-06-10T00:47:08Z")