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Song identification software

Audible Magic, with the help of the RIAA, has been making rounds at the Capital showing off its technology that could filter songs on P2P networks.

Audible Magic has software written by group of former Yamaha sound engineers who originally created the software to help movie post-production studios search massive sound effects databases. Now their software listens to a song and is able to match it up to information in its database and let people know if the song is being illegally traded.

With the help of P2P companies, the Audible Magic software could be implanted inside the clients software and would be able to freeze any unauthorized or illegal downloads.

Although the software is still not perfect it has been turning some legislative and regulatory officialsÕ heads after seeing demonstrations of the technology. The Audible Magic solution is a very possible way to filter the files being traded by P2P networks and the RIAA is excited about that.

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ZD Net - RIAA backs song-identification firm