Segment agreement
How consistently independent sections of a track produce the same measurement.
The engine splits a file into overlapping windows and analyses each one on its own before combining the results. Agreement between those windows is arguably the most valuable single piece of information the analysis produces — and it feeds confidence rather than probability.
If ten segments all point the same way, the reading is stable and the confidence level reflects that. If four say one thing and six say another, the honest output is 'inconclusive', and that is what the report shows. A tool that averages disagreement into a confident-looking number is hiding its own uncertainty.
How this tool uses it
Primary input to the confidence level. Sufficiently low agreement forces an inconclusive outcome regardless of the mean probability.
What else produces the same reading
- Very short clips contain too few segments to measure agreement usefully.
- Tracks with dramatic arrangement changes legitimately disagree with themselves.
- Mashups and remixes combine sources of different origin.