DISCOVERY OF MUSIC ARTIST AND TITLE FOR SYNDICATED CONTENT PLAYED BY RADIO STATIONS

摘要

Systems at a radio station provide representations to an acoustic fingerprinting service of audio content being broadcast for the provision of metadata identifying the audio content by the acoustic fingerprinting service back to the radio station for transmitting over the air or over the Internet simultaneously with the broadcast audio.

主权项

1. A method for a radio station to obtain metadata identification from an acoustic fingerprinting system of songs and other audio content currently playing by said radio station, comprising the steps of:
with a computer system at a radio station, said computer system co-located with said radio station's broadcast systems and electronically coupled to an audio source of said radio station, said audio source providing said computer system with the audio content currently being played and broadcast by said radio station, a. receiving said audio content from said audio source; b. optionally obtaining metadata associated with said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems; c. optionally obtaining acoustic fingerprints of said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems; d. sending a representation of said currently playing audio content via the Internet to an acoustic fingerprinting system for the provision of metadata identification of said audio content, said representation comprising at least one of the following:
i. a sample comprising a portion up to the entirety of said audio content;ii. an acoustic fingerprint of said audio content element;iii. metadata describing said audio content; and, e. receiving said metadata identification of said audio content from said acoustic fingerprinting system via the Internet, said metadata of a song recognized within said audio content by said acoustic fingerprinting system to include the artist and tile of the song.