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Audio Fingerprinting Via Cell Phones

Posted by michael on from the whorl-loop-or-arch dept.

aruil writes: "MSNBC has a story reporting on yet another audio fingerprinting application. Next year, Royal Philips Electronics will begin selling licenses to allow users to identify songs using their cell phones. Similar technology has already been open-sourced in FreeAmp, which uses the Relatable engine."

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  1. "another" link (Bitzi) by mlinksva · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bitzi (the "another" link in the article's "yet another" statement) isn't primarily an audio fingerprinting application. It's a file metadata catalog, audio fingerprints being just one sort of metadata collected. File metadata is keyed by a "bitprint" composed of two cryptographic hashes. The code for generating bitprints and contributing metadata to the catalog is in the public domain and the catalog itself is available for free reuse and redistribution under a dmoz-like license. Disclaimer: I work for Bitzi.