Patrick Mystery - Lion - shows up randomly in playlists

Seems like particularly when there’s dead air, this song title shows up in the auto recognition playlist. Since March when we started this service, it’s showed up several hundred times. One night when we were silent, it showed up dozens of times.

There are a few other titles that show up randomly as well, but none as often as Patrick Mystery, Lion

Doing a search, it appears that this title also shows up in a few other college radio playlists - we wonder if the music has something that makes it come up like that.

Hi Kali, thanks for joining the forum.

This might be a strange corner case in ACRCloud’s recognition. Perhaps for some reason the system learned that the sound of dead air has the same fingerprint as this song. In any case, given that this has happened many times at WZBC and you’ve seen it happen at other stations, I think ACRCloud may be able to investigate.

This is the song in question, right?

Tom

I don’t know the song - this is how it’s identified
Patrick Mystery Lion
Drastic Times BKS Records 1995

Just pulled that off of a playlist today at 6:59pm - it was easy to spot one.
-K

Hi Kali,

Thanks for letting us know about this issue. We have fixed it. Could you check if that happens again?

Thanks for joining the forum, @Peng_from_ACRCloud

Hi @Peng_from_ACRCloud

The problem appears to continue.

I’m pretty sure the following were not actually played on these radio stations.

Station Datetime Artist Song ISRC Release
WZBC Jun 12, 2020, 11:58:21 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 5:12:49 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 4:45:37 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 3:57:21 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 3:45:40 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 3:24:30 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 3:10:30 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 1:01:48 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 12, 2020, 12:42:10 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 5:12:55 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 4:15:57 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 11, 2020, 11:39:22 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 11, 2020, 10:38:03 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 11, 2020, 10:06:39 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 9:39:11 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 9:19:20 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 11, 2020, 9:13:56 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 9:12:09 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WORT Jun 11, 2020, 8:36:57 AM GMT-05:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 8:28:40 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 7:51:00 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KRWV LP Jun 11, 2020, 6:35:19 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KRWV LP Jun 11, 2020, 5:35:45 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KRWV LP Jun 11, 2020, 3:49:53 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KUBU Jun 11, 2020, 2:56:03 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 11, 2020, 12:23:39 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 10, 2020, 10:59:53 PM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 10, 2020, 10:29:20 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 10, 2020, 10:04:08 PM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 10, 2020, 9:38:17 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 10, 2020, 6:35:25 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WFNU Jun 10, 2020, 4:36:42 PM GMT-05:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 10, 2020, 2:55:41 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 10, 2020, 12:59:48 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KRWV LP Jun 10, 2020, 10:08:07 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KVMRx Jun 10, 2020, 7:21:06 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 10, 2020, 3:59:35 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 10:18:46 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 9:21:32 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 9:03:51 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 8:21:31 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 6:59:29 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KVMRx Jun 9, 2020, 4:24:41 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 9, 2020, 3:53:54 PM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 9, 2020, 3:42:37 PM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 3:28:22 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 9, 2020, 2:55:03 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 9, 2020, 12:35:19 PM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WZBC Jun 9, 2020, 11:55:46 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 9, 2020, 11:53:14 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times

Hi Tom,

After fine tuning the algorithm and checking the results over the weekend, I confirm this problem should be fixed. Please let us know if you discover it again.

H Peng,

Here are the search results from the last 24 hours. This doesn’t represent all the recognitions since some station staff actively search for this title to delete it.

Station Datetime Artist Song ISRC Release
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 6:52:57 PM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 9:44:01 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 9:10:14 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 8:45:33 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 8:28:53 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WSCA Jun 15, 2020, 8:01:26 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
WSCA Jun 15, 2020, 7:59:58 AM GMT-04:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 7:38:55 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 7:35:05 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 7:11:23 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 6:56:24 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 6:13:53 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 5:56:02 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KZYX Jun 15, 2020, 5:25:36 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KEBF Jun 15, 2020, 1:44:22 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KMUD Jun 15, 2020, 1:24:42 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times
KFCF Jun 15, 2020, 1:12:23 AM GMT-07:00 Patrick Mystery Lion ushm20340978 Drastic Times

This is probably more than you may want to know, but it’s not just Patrick Mystery, though that seems so be the biggest offender for us, though maybe not now. Pasted below is an email from the person who looks at these things in our playlists -
-Kali

Be suspicious if any of these pop up on our playlists. This is the list of artists who have appeared repeatedly in WZBC’s playlists and KVMR’s playlists. Many also appeared on the Wisconsin technical college’s internet radio station playlists, but they don’t archive their playlists. So I make a note when I see them, but can’t go back and pull the playlists where it happened.

You might not find these in our old playlists now, because I deleted most of them after I had enough proof that they did not belong there.

My proof was as follows:

  1. They appeared repeatedly on other radio stations during shows where they didn’t fit, like on jazz or classical music shows.

  2. When I looked at our bot show where they appeared on the Spinitron playlist, and compared that playlist to the “bot song list” for those hours that was generated by Rivendell, the songs were NOT on the Rivendell list.

  3. I confirmed that they were not the opening music or theme music played during breaks on someone’s radio show, or used as a music bed for an ID or PSA.

The list I made has 29 artists. There are another 36 for which I do not yet have enough proof.

Here’s the list. The most frequent offenders are in boldface.

Billy Paul Williams
Blaze Ya Dead
Bölzer
Carlos Estrella
Chris Roberts
Claudio Diva
Cristian Bassi
DJ Genuine Me
DNUUM
Dolphin X
Dona Flor
Dr. Minimal
Erik King
Fissures
Hip Hop’s Finest
J A Forster
Lee Knight
Mingo
Patrick Mystery
Piero Zeta
Propeller
Rodney Stinson
Rokyoursoul
Sarah Hastings
Somei Yoshino

Sempre
Technoyzer
The Pillow
Venusia

Thanks Tom, there was one missing change need to be made and it is ready. Let’s see how it works for this song first.

Hi Kali,

I believe these errors are caused by the same technical issue. Just updated the algorithm. Please let me know if you see this issue remains.

Anyone can search across all Spinitron stations in the last 24 hours using Spinitron Search. For example

I just did so for all the boldface names in the list and got nothing except 4 hits on Patrick Mystery. The most recent was at 3:37 AM Eastern, i.e. 07:37 UTC.

Note: This search feature is looking at playlists as they exist when you run the search. So if someone deletes a spurious recognition then it will no longer appear in the search results. In other words, all it can find is stuff that has not been deleted.

Very helpful and good to know. We will keep watching this.