WebProNews » Pristine Audio http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:05:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CS-iTunes Cracks Piano Case http://www.webpronews.com/cs-itunes-cracks-piano-case-2007-02 http://www.webpronews.com/cs-itunes-cracks-piano-case-2007-02#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:40:04 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=35425 The revelation that recordings by late British concert pianist Joyce Hatto are actually the works of other performers came to light only after a music critic popped one of her CDs into an iTunes-equipped computer.

The critic expected iTunes to dutifully identify Hatto’s disc and recordings, but received a surprise when the program said the works were those of someone completely different.

Hatto had been a widely-hailed pianist in the years before her 2006 death. The New Scientist blog about the incident said her recordings showed a “masterful command” of works by the likes of Liszt and Schubert.

What iTunes found was a digital fingerprint in her music. When it checked that against Gracenote’s CDDB, it revealed to the critic that L

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