How does MusicDNS work?

MusicDNS is a web service that leverages the extensive platform and infrastructure that MusicIP has put in place to provide the most reliable services possible.

MusicDNS accepts four data types in order to identify tracks and return the according information. For example, MusicDNS can be provided with an acoustic fingerprint, which will then provide back our universal unique ID that corresponds to that fingerprint as well as all associated metadata that we have in our database.

Where does your metadata come from?

MusicIP acquires metadata from several sources, including:

• All of the users across all of our products
• The MusicBrainz community (www.musicbrainz.org)
• Commercial content partners

How accurate is your metadata?

All metadata submissions are perpetually refined to ensure they are of the highest quality.

Do I need to fingerprint a file multiple times?

No. We only need to analyze the musical characteristics of a track once in the world.

Does MusicIP have to host MusicDNS?

Yes. By keeping MusicDNS an on-demand service, all of our customers and users benefit. We ensure the infrastructure is running smoothly, and core updates to the product are provided without our users and customers having to invest time to deploy them on their infrastructures.

Why did MusicIP open-source MusicDNS?

We want to provide a solution that all music technology developers can adopt freely. By open-sourcing MusicDNS, we can ensure that everyone with ideas requiring unique digital music identification, metadata has a solution to enhance their products and/or applications to provide the best user experiences possible.