AmpliFIND
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AmpliFIND is an acoustic fingerprinting service and a software development kit developed by the US company MusicIP.
Developer | MusicIP |
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Type | audio identification service |
Website | AmpliFIND Music Services |
MusicIP first marketed their fingerprinting algorithm and service as MusicDNS. In 2006, MusicIP reported that the MusicDNS database had more than 22 million fingerprints of digital audio recordings.[1] One of their customers was MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit company that used MusicDNS in their MusicBrainz and MusicBrainz Picard software products.[2][3]
Even so, MusicIP dissolved in 2008. The company's CEO, Andrew Stess, bought the rights to MusicDNS, renamed the software to AmpliFIND, and started a new company called AmpliFIND Music Services.[4][5] In 2011, Stess sold AmpliFIND to Sony, who incorporated it into the digital music service offerings of their Gracenote division.[6][7] Tribune Media subsequently purchased Gracenote, including the MusicDNS software.