Blog.

You get an idea of a project with a requirement of knowing what’s the song or commercials played on the radio and TV. Are you trying to build your own radio airplay monitoring system with open source projects? There are lots of pains to do it! It takes lots of time to crunch the code,it’s […]

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 […]

Chatbots are definitely the hype of 2016 with the major announcements of Facebook and Microsoft. “What song is this?” is a question people always ask when they heard a song they like. In this blog post we will take you go through the song finder chatbots that are made by developers with ACRCloud music recognition […]

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 […]

There are quite a lot of users wondering why the apps like Shazam recognize audio so quickly? The secret weapon is pre-recording and now you are able to have this amazing feature on your own apps as today we support pre-recording on iOS and Android SDK. Download the latest SDK and integrate on your apps […]

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 […]

As you might have noticed that some of the radio stations do pitch shifting and time shifting (aka Audio time-scale/pitch modification) on their live streams, that makes music recognition and radio airplay monitoring a little bit harder on those radio stations. Today we are proud to announce that ACRCloud have supported to recognize audio and […]

As more and more customers around the world are implementing our SDK and APIs, we are expending the service deployment in multiple regions to improve user experience and reduce data latency in your project. Today we are proud to announce the launch of US West (Oregon) region, this deployment will reduce data latency for the end […]

As you may have noticed ACRCloud doesn’t provide some of music metadata or copyrighted contents such as album covers, artist images, lyrics etc in its recognition/monitoring results, but the value-added service – 3rd Party ID Integration can be treated as a hub to help you to drill down more data with other music APIs or developer […]