Maybe it sounds more like a Sherlock Holmes tale but fingerprints can help in radio, in this case on music identification and rights reporting.
As music content becomes commoditized through multiple playing channels such as broadcast and streaming, the rights sometimes seem to get forgotten. This is very important, especially to the owners of those rights.
Automation developer Jutel recently posted a blog entry on how its RadioMan automation system can accurately track and log what music is being played.
“Accurate music identification and reliable reporting are essential to modern radio operations. Broadcasters air huge amounts of content every day, and copyright organizations need precise data to ensure royalties are distributed correctly. RadioMan’s Fingerprint and Media Export plugins help automate this process, making it easier to capture, identify, and deliver music metadata and fingerprints to rights-management systems,” the post explains.
The company notes that in many places there is an automatic database logger but in others not. However, local music, small acts and older music may not be on that list but RadioMan will generate a fingerprint for cuts that aren’t in a database. RadioMan updates itself automatically.
Full logs accounting for all music played can then be generated.
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