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How to avoid copyright infringement & generate tracklist of mixes and mashups for music streaming services
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How to avoid copyright infringement & generate tracklist of mixes and mashups for music streaming services

This is a guest post written by Benedikt Groß – Founder of hearthis.at The German project hearthis.at is a music hosting and streaming service for music producers and sound creators and offers unlimited free music hosting and Premium plans for fair prices. It hosts more than 1.100.000 audio files of any kind for more than 350.000 […]

The pros and cons of in-app ACR vs linear broadcast monitoring vs smart TV ACR for Marketers
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The pros and cons of in-app ACR vs linear broadcast monitoring vs smart TV ACR for Marketers

This is a guest post by Ronan Higgins – Founder of TVadSync, the leading provider of TV-to-mobile ad retargeting for agencies and marketers in the US. Automatic content recognition technology, also known as “ACR”, has advanced significantly in the past couple of years; and the uses of ACR have diversified as quickly. ACR enables computers to recognize […]

Identify Songs Like Shazam Anywhere
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Identify Songs Like Shazam Anywhere

Identify Songs by Sound “What is this song?” is a question people ask all the time. As the development of Audio Fingerprinting technology and music Identification cloud service, intelligent softwares have been developed to answer it. Try a online music recognizer. Music Identification Apps Shazam:  One of the world’s most popular apps, used by more than 100 million people each month to […]

How to make a Chrome music finder extension
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How to make a Chrome music finder extension

This is a guest post written by Thomas Lindauer, the developer of Chrome music recognition extension – Beat Finder. I recently decided to make a Chrome plugin that can identify songs playing in your browser, I’ve discovered a method of developing recognition plugins for Chrome painlessly that I’d like to share. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umW_KbYwQKU] This demo video […]

How does Shazam work?
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How does Shazam work?

It happens all the time: Sitting at Starbucks with friends or driving to work and there’s some awesome song playing on the FM radio station, you ask your friend what is the name of the song, “Just Shazam it” might be the common answer. Yes, like Google and Twitter, Shazam became the verb now. When […]