Capture the Moment on Your Smartphone - Get the House Mix Soundtrack

User generated smartphone videos that sound perfect? TagMix created an app that automatically adds the official live audio directly to the user generated video. In this article, Ciaran Maloy writes about how TagMix enhances the quality of user-generated content by giving them a professional, authorized soundtrack. This article was originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter.

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, announced that it will power advanced music recognition for Mixcloud streaming platform, using next-generation audio fingerprinting to help identify and catalog copyrighted music within user-generated content. Using Gracenote's MusicID music recognition technology, Mixcloud will more accurately identify copyrighted audio content on its music platform to ensure proper royalty payments to rights holders.

Music Reports, the rights administration platform, has reached a new milestone with its Songdex Claiming System, which has now surpassed one million tracks claimed by music publishers. Songdex is the largest database of music rights and related business information in the world, containing detailed, relational data on tens of millions of songs, recordings, and their owners, covering virtually all of the commercially significant music in existence.