DrJ used our newssubmit to tell us that our friends of the IFPI and RIAA are looking for technologies that can identify music based on its content. This technology is also known as fingerprinting.
Fingerprinting, or content-based identification, technologies have been discussed in the technology community for many years. They work by extracting the characteristics of a piece of music and storing them in a database. When the technology is presented with an unknown piece of music, the characteristics of that piece are calculated and matched against those stored in the database, hopefully finding a match. |
Potential applications in the recording industry include:
Source: IFPI.org
