Gracenote gets Philips audio ID
p2p news / p2pnet:- The Netherland’s Royal Philips is now working with Gracenote in the audio finger-printing business.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning is licensing the Philips technology for Snocap, his as-yet unproven software nominated by Mashboxx, the similarly unproven corporate p2p firm, to determine if a song can be legally shared over a p2p network.
Gracenote, formerly CDDB, says it’s acquired Philips’ audio identification and fingerprinting technology and has also entered into a “long term research and development agreement” with Philips Research.
“In addition, Philips has taken an equity position in Gracenote, which sells “critical embedded software and content,” and will serve as a strategic technology advisor,” it states.
The deal will allow Gracenote to “expand into new areas, including chip-based recognition solutions perfect for mobile environments, embedded solutions for devices such as car stereos, and music and advertising monitoring,” it says, adding.
“As part of the transaction, Philips transferred its intellectual property rights, including an extensive portfolio of patent applications, for audio identification and fingerprinting technology to Gracenote.”
Something you think we should know? tips[at]p2pnet.net
See:-
Gracenote – Gracenote Acquires Cutting Edge Audio Fingerprinting Technology From Philips Electronics, August 30, 2005
September 6th, 2005 at 1:55 am
I still don’t get this audio fingerprinting stuff. Surely as soon as you convert the file to another format, that fingerprint would be lost, or at least changed in some way?
Even if it doesn’t, I imagine ppl would just create programs to look for and remove fingerprints from files anyway. Yet another DReaM of the cartels that they’re going to soon wake up from.
September 9th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Tony: you are mixing up watermarks and fingerprints.
There is no ‘fingerprint’ in an audio file.