MusicIP Launches Free Music Identification and Metadata Service
1/12/07 - Monrovia-based MusicIP today announced new pricing for their popular digital music identification solution, MusicDNS. The company says that by eliminating the cost and offering this hosted, on-demand service for free, MusicDNS is poised to become a standard for the global identification of digital music tracks.
With its database of over 26 million fingerprint track IDs behind it, the MusicDNS web service identifies and delivers metadata about specific tracks. Service access is freely available, with open-source or commercial client libraries for all major computing platforms. This approach addresses the emerging track-centric digital music marketplace, and avoids the cost and lock-in challenges of legacy CD data. The public-domain track metadata returned by MusicDNS can be used freely for any application needs by developers, organizations or enterprises.
“Music technology developers and organizations have been without an affordable, reliable digital music content identification solution for too long,” said Dr. Matthew Dunn, CEO of MusicIP. “To enable profitable new music business models, the industry needs widely-adopted digital fundamentals like content identification services.”
In April 2006, MusicIP was awarded U.S. Patent #7,013,301 for its Audio Fingerprinting System and Method. The technology in the patent identifies digital music tracks at the master-recording level, by the actual sounds in the track, making it possible to identify the same piece of music, consistently, anywhere in the world regardless of language or format.
The metadata available through MusicDNS includes Track Name, Artist Name, Album Name(s), Genre(s), Release Year, and Creative Commons License.
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