Apple Music Uses Shazam Tool to Identify 4v431 Compensate Artists in DJ Mixes: Report

Apple Music earlier faced difficulty in identifying the songs that are used in the DJ mix. 5w2wl

By Nithya P Nair | Updated: 11 September 2021 12:09 IST

Apple Music Uses Shazam Tool to Identify, Compensate Artists in DJ Mixes: Report

Apple Music is now able to identify the songs within a DJ mix 5x6l6o

Highlights

Apple Music has created a new process to find rights holders on DJ mixes
Apple Music will show the names of individual tracks
Apple Music has a catalogue of over 75 million tracks in Lossless Audio

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Apple Music reportedly confirmed that it can now identify the songs within a DJ mix and directly pay individual creators, event promoters, mix suppliers, and other artists who are part of the track. The audio streaming service said it built new technology and tools on the audio recognition app Shazam to identify and compensate rights holders on DJ mixes ed to Apple Music.

acquired Shazam in 2018.

Earlier, Apple Music said it faced difficulty in identifying the songs that are used in the DJ mix. Deciding how to pay the right contributors was also a huge task. But using Shazam's song recognition technology, it can now easily identify and compensate the creators, and people who all are involved in the DJ mix. With the latest technology, Apple Music‌ subscribers can see the names of individual tracks within a streamed mix.

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