MusicBrainz, the music tagging database has partnered with MusicIP and will start using their PUID fingerprinting technology to replace the former TRM fingerprints. This will potentially mean mean much improved look-ups based on acoustic properties.
MusicIP provides:
- Free fingerprint lookup services for official MusicBrainz projects. The fingerprint services are entirely hosted by MusicIP, which removes the burden of hosting service that is only tangential to our mission.
- A GPL/APL licensed fingerprinting client library (Open Fingerprint Architecture Library aka libofa) that is ready to integrate into new applications today!
- Other projects that wish to integrate fingerprinting services into their applications will need to sign up with the MusicDNS service. This service is free for non-profit projects (musicdns.org), and price-tiered for commercial projects such that even small startups have access. For more details, please visit MusicDNS.org.
- $10,000 held in escrow for MusicBrainz, plus contractual commitment to supply hardware resources should MusicIP exit the fingerprinting business. This is designed to allow us to continue the service should they decide to stop providing the service.
- a 10% cut on all income earned from fingerprinting queries where MusicBrainz metadata is provided via the MusicDNS service.
- 800K acoustic fingerprint ids (PUIDs) that which are already loaded into our DB.
- Travel, lodging and registration costs for myself to attend the SXSW
conference, where all of this is being announced and released. - Allow us to exhibit in the MusicIP booth at SXSW this week. Including displaying our logo!
MusicBrainz provides:
- One free live data feed for MusicIP’s use.
- The right for MusicIP to sub-license the MusicBrainz data to their customers as part of their product offering — at full list price. MusicIP takes no cut.
- Community support of the Open Fingerprint Architecture library. Many of the exact details on where the source code will live still need to be worked out over the next few weeks.
