Very interesting discussion. Always been attracted to barcodes so I had to take a look. I did some analysis of the barcodes alone (didn't access the API for the media refs) and think I have the basic encoding process figured out. However, based on the two examples above, I'm not convinced I have the mapping from media ref to 37-bit vector correct (i.e. it works in case 2 but not case 1). At any rate, if you have a few more pairs, that last part should be simple to work out. Let me know.
For those who want to figure this out, don't read the spoilers below!
It turns out that the basic process outlined in the patent is correct, but lacking in details. I'll summarize below using the example above. I actually analyzed this in reverse which is why I think the code description is basically correct except for step (1), i.e. I generated 45 barcodes and all of them matched had this code.
1. Map the media reference as integer to 37 bit vector.
Something like write number in base 2, with lowest significant bit
on the left and zero-padding on right if necessary.
57639171874 -> 0100010011101111111100011101011010110
2. Calculate CRC-8-CCITT, i.e. generator x^8 + x^2 + x + 1
The following steps are needed to calculate the 8 CRC bits:
Pad with 3 bits on the right:
01000100 11101111 11110001 11010110 10110000
Reverse bytes:
00100010 11110111 10001111 01101011 00001101
Calculate CRC as normal (highest order degree on the left):
-> 11001100
Reverse CRC:
-> 00110011
Invert check:
-> 11001100
Finally append to step 1 result:
01000100 11101111 11110001 11010110 10110110 01100
3. Convolutionally encode the 45 bits using the common generator
polynomials (1011011, 1111001) in binary with puncture pattern
110110 (or 101, 110 on each stream). The result of step 2 is
encoded using tail-biting, meaning we begin the shift register
in the state of the last 6 bits of the 45 long input vector.
Prepend stream with last 6 bits of data:
001100 01000100 11101111 11110001 11010110 10110110 01100
Encode using first generator:
(a) 100011100111110100110011110100000010001001011
Encode using 2nd generator:
(b) 110011100010110110110100101101011100110011011
Interleave bits (abab...):
11010000111111000010111011110011010011110001...
1010111001110001000101011000010110000111001111
Puncture every third bit:
111000111100101111101110111001011100110000100100011100110011
4. Permute data by choosing indices 0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49,
56, 3, 10..., i.e. incrementing 7 modulo 60. (Note: unpermute by
incrementing 43 mod 60).
The encoded sequence after permuting is
111100110001110101101000011110010110101100111111101000111000
5. The final step is to map back to bar lengths 0 to 7 using the
gray map (000,001,011,010,110,111,101,100). This gives the 20 bar
encoding. As noted before, add three bars: short one on each end
and a long one in the middle.
UPDATE: I've added a barcode (levels) decoder (assuming no errors) and an alternate encoder that follows the description above rather than the equivalent linear algebra method. Hopefully that is a bit more clear.
UPDATE 2: Got rid of most of the hard-coded arrays to illustrate how they are generated.
The linear algebra method defines the linear transformation (spotify_generator) and mask to map the 37 bit input into the 60 bit convolutionally encoded data. The mask is result of the 8-bit inverted CRC being convolutionally encoded. The spotify_generator is a 37x60 matrix that implements the product of generators for the CRC (a 37x45 matrix) and convolutional codes (a 45x60 matrix). You can create the generator matrix from an encoding function by applying the function to each row of an appropriate size generator matrix. For example, a CRC function that add 8 bits to each 37 bit data vector applied to each row of a 37x37 identity matrix.
import numpy as np
import crccheck
# Utils for conversion between int, array of binary
# and array of bytes (as ints)
def int_to_bin(num, length, endian):
if endian == 'l':
return [num >> i & 1 for i in range(0, length)]
elif endian == 'b':
return [num >> i & 1 for i in range(length-1, -1, -1)]
def bin_to_int(bin,length):
return int("".join([str(bin[i]) for i in range(length-1,-1,-1)]),2)
def bin_to_bytes(bin, length):
b = bin[0:length] + [0] * (-length % 8)
return [(b[i]<<7) + (b[i+1]<<6) + (b[i+2]<<5) + (b[i+3]<<4) +
(b[i+4]<<3) + (b[i+5]<<2) + (b[i+6]<<1) + b[i+7] for i in range(0,len(b),8)]
# Return the circular right shift of an array by 'n' positions
def shift_right(arr, n):
return arr[-n % len(arr):len(arr):] + arr[0:-n % len(arr)]
gray_code = [0,1,3,2,7,6,4,5]
gray_code_inv = [[0,0,0],[0,0,1],[0,1,1],[0,1,0],
[1,1,0],[1,1,1],[1,0,1],[1,0,0]]
# CRC using Rocksoft model:
# NOTE: this is not quite any of their predefined CRC's
# 8: number of check bits (degree of poly)
# 0x7: representation of poly without high term (x^8+x^2+x+1)
# 0x0: initial fill of register
# True: byte reverse data
# True: byte reverse check
# 0xff: Mask check (i.e. invert)
spotify_crc = crccheck.crc.Crc(8, 0x7, 0x0, True, True, 0xff)
def calc_spotify_crc(bin37):
bytes = bin_to_bytes(bin37, 37)
return int_to_bin(spotify_crc.calc(bytes), 8, 'b')
def check_spotify_crc(bin45):
data = bin_to_bytes(bin45,37)
return spotify_crc.calc(data) == bin_to_bytes(bin45[37:], 8)[0]
# Simple convolutional encoder
def encode_cc(dat):
gen1 = [1,0,1,1,0,1,1]
gen2 = [1,1,1,1,0,0,1]
punct = [1,1,0]
dat_pad = dat[-6:] + dat # 6 bits are needed to initialize
# register for tail-biting
stream1 = np.convolve(dat_pad, gen1, mode='valid') % 2
stream2 = np.convolve(dat_pad, gen2, mode='valid') % 2
enc = [val for pair in zip(stream1, stream2) for val in pair]
return [enc[i] for i in range(len(enc)) if punct[i % 3]]
# To create a generator matrix for a code, we encode each row
# of the identity matrix. Note that the CRC is not quite linear
# because of the check mask so we apply the lamda function to
# invert it. Given a 37 bit media reference we can encode by
# ref * spotify_generator + spotify_mask (mod 2)
_i37 = np.identity(37, dtype=bool)
crc_generator = [_i37[r].tolist() +
list(map(lambda x : 1-x, calc_spotify_crc(_i37[r].tolist())))
for r in range(37)]
spotify_generator = 1*np.array([encode_cc(crc_generator[r]) for r in range(37)], dtype=bool)
del _i37
spotify_mask = 1*np.array(encode_cc(37*[0] + 8*[1]), dtype=bool)
# The following matrix is used to "invert" the convolutional code.
# In particular, we choose a 45 vector basis for the columns of the
# generator matrix (by deleting those in positions equal to 2 mod 4)
# and then inverting the matrix. By selecting the corresponding 45
# elements of the convolutionally encoded vector and multiplying
# on the right by this matrix, we get back to the unencoded data,
# assuming there are no errors.
# Note: numpy does not invert binary matrices, i.e. GF(2), so we
# hard code the following 3 row vectors to generate the matrix.
conv_gen = [[0,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,1]+31*[0],
[1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1] + 32*[0],
[0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,1] + 32*[0] ]
conv_generator_inv = 1*np.array([shift_right(conv_gen[(s-27) % 3],s) for s in range(27,72)], dtype=bool)
# Given an integer media reference, returns list of 20 barcode levels
def spotify_bar_code(ref):
bin37 = np.array([int_to_bin(ref, 37, 'l')], dtype=bool)
enc = (np.add(1*np.dot(bin37, spotify_generator), spotify_mask) % 2).flatten()
perm = [enc[7*i % 60] for i in range(60)]
return [gray_code[4*perm[i]+2*perm[i+1]+perm[i+2]] for i in range(0,len(perm),3)]
# Equivalent function but using CRC and CC encoders.
def spotify_bar_code2(ref):
bin37 = int_to_bin(ref, 37, 'l')
enc_crc = bin37 + calc_spotify_crc(bin37)
enc_cc = encode_cc(enc_crc)
perm = [enc_cc[7*i % 60] for i in range(60)]
return [gray_code[4*perm[i]+2*perm[i+1]+perm[i+2]] for i in range(0,len(perm),3)]
# Given 20 (clean) barcode levels, returns media reference
def spotify_bar_decode(levels):
level_bits = np.array([gray_code_inv[levels[i]] for i in range(20)], dtype=bool).flatten()
conv_bits = [level_bits[43*i % 60] for i in range(60)]
cols = [i for i in range(60) if i % 4 != 2] # columns to invert
conv_bits45 = np.array([conv_bits[c] for c in cols], dtype=bool)
bin45 = (1*np.dot(conv_bits45, conv_generator_inv) % 2).tolist()
if check_spotify_crc(bin45):
return bin_to_int(bin45, 37)
else:
print('Error in levels; Use real decoder!!!')
return -1
And example:
>>> levels = [5,7,4,1,4,6,6,0,2,4,3,4,6,7,5,5,6,0,5,0]
>>> spotify_bar_decode(levels)
57639171874
>>> spotify_barcode(57639171874)
[5, 7, 4, 1, 4, 6, 6, 0, 2, 4, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 5, 6, 0, 5, 0]
spotify:track:1ykrctzPhcSS9GS3aHdtMtfor me, not the playlist. The other two media references returnspotify:user:jimmylavallin:playlist:2hXLRTDrNa4rG1XyM0ngT1andspotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DWZq91oLsHZvy. Is that what you are getting? – Declinatory