MRM - Potential Applications

The Acoustic Fingerprinting technology could be useful whenever someone needs to match an unknown record against a database of records, or discover identical records in a large set. For example, a copyright holder may want to use MRM to in order to control distribution of music online, or in P2P file-swapping networks. It can be used to meter use of copyrighted music or advertising in broadcasts, such as radio. MRM can also be used by search engine operators to identify music files found on the web. Or it can be used to identify video clips by the background sounds.

We are currently building a desktop application that will allow music fans to find and remove duplicates in their music collections. The application will seek multiple copies of the same records based on their content (as opposed to metadata).