On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:17:50 -0800 (PST) Ivan K <ivan_521521@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I did not mean to send HTML. Here is a plain text version. > > > > Hello LAD/LAU members: > > I teach introduction to western music courses at a local > community college, and one thing I have to deal with is > students cheating by using a smart phone during the > exam. Sure, I am in the room and occasionally walk > down the aisles, but these enterprising students are still > often able to hide a smart phone from me. > > The way these smart phone cheaters are usually caught > is when answering an essay question, they usually > look up the topic on Wikipedia and copy word for word > several sentences. > > On these exams, there are a few audio identifications, > and recently one student did a surprising thing. > The audio example was from Pierrot Lunaire, and not only did > answer the question by writing down the title and composer but > she ALSO WROTE DOWN the title and composer of a track by Webern > which was on the original CD that I ripped the Schoenberg > from. > > To summarize, from an mp3/ogg file that was put on-line > of one track from a CD, the student was able to identify > _other_ tracks from the CD that were not put on-line. > > How did the student do this? Here are links to the two sound > files that the students had access to: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/66qkorouak19gpu/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.mp3 > https://www.dropbox.com/s/z17qoxey9ju4lei/07_20th-pilu_p03_15-18.ogg > > Are there some tags embedded in these files? How would I > be able to see these tags myself? > > If there are no embedded tags, how did this student obtain > this information? > > Thanks; Ivan There are on-line resources that can identify a reasonable fragment of music, and return plenty of information about it. She obviously knew this! -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
