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ACRCloud launches AI Music Detector, a solution designed to assist Digital Service Providers (DSPs), music distributors, music collection societies and rights holders in identifying AI-generated music. As generative AI tools become more accessible, the volume of AI-created music entering streaming platforms continues to grow. […]

RegioNext is a provider of regional online advertising from Germany and aims to enable small and medium-sized companies in particular to successfully place online advertising in order to remain competitive. RegioNext has the special feature that the service is provided at a fixed monthly price, which makes the RegioNext service particularly attractive for companies with […]

Many developers have problems connecting different music platforms when using our service. Today, we are pleased to introduce Metadata API, helping you connect third-party platforms by music metadata search. You may remember The Echo Nest’s Rosetta Stone. Now, we are doing something similar with Metadata API. Simply input the song URL, ISRC, ACRID (internal identifier […]

ACRCloud is the leading music recognition and broadcast monitoring service provider, it indexed over 72m tracks in its music fingerprinting database and many customers enjoy its services. There are many developers on ACRCloud hacked on Twitch already, now ACRCloud supports monitoring Twitch live channels for music, users could simply input the webpage URL of Twitch […]

When Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive became law on April 15th, 2019, it followed some major controversy. The opposition among tech firms was so extreme, that the CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, backed a petition against it.     So what’s the big deal with Article 17? If you work in any kind of role […]

My name is Shiraz McClennon, and I’m a 15 year old student from England. I have always been passionate about programming, and I love turning my ideas into a reality. On Saturday 4th December 2019, I had the idea to create a service similar to Shazam in the form of a Telegram bot that would identify […]

My company, Immetrica, and I personally have been building audiovisual audience measurement systems for 33 years, auditing existing systems, and analysing ratings data. In late 2017 we realised that as viewing fragmented among various platforms and devices, existing systems were becoming progressively blind to parts of overall viewing. This affected conventional people-meters (which could not […]

While it’s good news that the global music industry is increasingly capable of enforcing digital rights, digital content platforms and services providers have found themselves more exposed to risks of secondary infringement, or indirect infringement, which occurs when these channels facilitate their content contributors or users in infringing on a copyright. We have seen in […]

If you happen to spend most of your life surfing websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, you may have already seen the term “Article 13” many times since last September. Many Internet content creators, especially those active on YouTube, have already made hundreds of videos explaining the “hazardous” effects and outcomes of this legislation on […]

MelodyDBEngine, which indexed millions of songs’ melody, has been powering Xiaomi, KKBOX and AWA‘s Query By Singing/Humming feature for several years, and its features include: the ability to index music by melodies, search by singing or humming as well as extract melodies from a music files including human singing voice inside of it. This API can […]

Spinitron is a web-based playlist-management solution provider for non-commercial community and educational radio stations handles flexible playlist entry, archiving, reporting, and versatile publishing. Here is the guest post from Tom, the CTO of Spinitron discussing about the scenarios how they use ACRCloud real time music monitoring solution in their product. Spinitron now offers real-time music […]

This is a guest post by Richard Isaacs – Digital Content Assistant of Fresh 92.7 This is a simple tutorial for generating the artist and title from your ACRCloud JSON stream now plating metadata for a standard online radio audio stream being monitored using the ACRCloid Broadcast Monitoring function.