Naming that tune via algorithms is music to a software firm's ears.MusicIP doesn't want you to name that tune--it will do it for you. The Monrovia-based digital music software company launched a service at last week's South by Southwest music industry conference in Austin, Texas. Originally a software and "firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. " developer (firmware is somewhere between hardware and software,) MusicIP has developed technology that can identify digital music using algorithms. That allows users and artists to group music into playlists based on the musical tone and "mood" aspects of the music--rather than by the subjective grouping by genre that leads to broad categories such as "80s Rock," "Alternative," or "Rhythm & Blues." The company has already analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. and catalogued 16 million songs, and its technology is used by AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Music and media player Winamp. The software is distributed through downloads so there's no package or suite to buy. Last week, the company announced new partnerships with peer-to-peer file tracker BigChampagne, file-sharing community Creative Commons An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not required at all. , and online music encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books MusicBrainz, among others. The technology lets consumers organize their music libraries based on musical criteria of each song--rather than by the label on the album--and can identify digital tracks that may be incomplete. Chief Executive Matthew Dunn Matthew Stephen Dunn (born September 2, 1973 in Leeton, New South Wales) is a former Olympic freestyle and medley swimmer swimmer who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Australia, starting in 1992. said that digital music listeners typically have about 200 songs in their collection that are either misidentified or unidentified. MusicIP also serves as a musical search engine that can recommend music to listeners, much like bookseller sites offer similar recommendations. MusicIP licenses the commercial version of its software to music companies and also has revenue-sharing agreements with sites such as Amazon.com. Dunn is a former music industry engineer with a technology background, and has been running the company since its 2000 spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. from custom-software provider Predixis Inc. Staff Reporter Hilary Potkewitz can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 226, or by e-mail at hpotkewitz@labusinessjournal.com. |
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