Discovery of music artist and title for syndicated content played by radio stations
OwnerHarry E. Emerson, IIIinventor
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Abstract
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.
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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.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing processor readable code for programming a processor for use in operating a computer system at 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:
- 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, the audio from said audio source comprising the audio content currently being played and broadcast by said radio station;
- a. a routine arranged to receive said audio content from said audio source;
- b. optionally comprising a routing for obtaining metadata associated with said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems;
- c. optionally comprising a routing for obtaining fingerprints of said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems;
- d. a routine arranged for sending a representation of said 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 routine for sending an audio sample comprising a portion up to the entirety of said audio content;
- ii. a routine for sending an acoustic fingerprint of said audio content;
- iii. a routine for sending metadata describing said audio content;
- and,
- e. a routine for receiving said metadata identification of said audio content by said computer system 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.
A system 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:
- a. 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;
- b. said computer system optionally configured to receive obtain metadata associated with said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems;
- c. said computer system optionally configured to obtain fingerprints of said audio content from said radio station's broadcast systems;
- d. said computer system configured to send a representation of said audio content to an acoustic fingerprinting system via the Internet for the provision of metadata identification of said audio content, said representation comprising at least one of the following:
- i. an audio sample comprising a portion up to the entirety of said audio content;
- ii. an acoustic fingerprint of said audio content;
- iii. metadata describing said audio content;
- and,
- e. said computer server of said radio station configured to receive 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.
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