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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.

This is an interview with Pat Edison of Radio Caroline, a legendary radio station from the U.K. How would you introduce Radio Caroline? Quite simply that without founder Ronan O’Rahilly launching Radio Caroline from a ship anchored off the East Coast of the UK in 1964, the 1960’s ‘pop boom’ may not have happened, or at […]

This is a guest post by Jeremy London. Jeremy is a lawyer, father and hobby programmer who recently discovered the convenience of ACRCloud. I work as a lawyer but I’ve always been mathematically minded, and learning programming had been on my To Do list for a while. In mid-2016, my wife and I had our […]

AMC & Mountain Dew’s co-branded app, The Walking Dead Encounter has been launched along with the series The Walking Dead Season 8 from OCT. 22 to Dec. 10. Fans can interact with the shows by scanning the Mountain Dew commercials aired during each week’s live episode to unlock new walkers using ACRCloud audio recognition technology. A total […]

Africa is an emerging market for the music industry, more and more people pay attention to African music industry and data is always the key component or the industry. Today we want to introduce a pioneer for broadcast monitoring service in Africa – Qisimah. They gather radio airplay monitoring data and provide the unique insights for different […]

We are excited to announce the new feature – Timeshift Channel Detection is available for all of our clients who require detecting live channels! Timeshift channels are widely used among TV networks, we’ve made our system much easier to detect this kind of content for our clients. You can set up the timeshift channels with up […]