iTunes Match. how?

[thekris1234]

I saw the Apple KeyNote about iTunes Match. Sounds like a brilliant idea and I think even at $24.99 millions will use it.

However, how good is it at detecting Ripped music? I mean, say a user downloaded a music track from somewhere like PirateBay. What would stop iTunes Match from recognising it from any other track that could have been ripped from a CD.

 

[Bear]

I think this is why Apple paid the music labels $150 Million.

 

[Statelymwhite]

If I can record myself humming the song, how good do you think the matching algorithm will be? 😀

 

[ufkdo]

We don't know what kind of method Apple will use. If it looks for certain infos like artist, name of the songs etc. it will easily be deceived (say you have only ten songs, duplicate them and change infos to the music you want, whoaa). I think Apple will and should find a way, people who gives hundreds of dollars to collections are not insane 😉

 

[fat jez]

My understanding is it works in a similar fashion to Shazam, in that it's the audio signature it recognises. Didn't Apple buy a company recently who specialise in recognising music from it's signature?

 

[Jagardn]

We don't know what kind of method Apple will use. If it looks for certain infos like artist, name of the songs etc. it will easily be deceived (say you have only ten songs, duplicate them and change infos to the music you want, whoaa). I think Apple will and should find a way, people who gives hundreds of dollars to collections are not insane 😉

I would really think it would go by the metadata as well as some sort of a checksum. I'm sure the record labels would not let Apple get away with just using the Artist and Song name info.

 

[ufkdo]

I would really think it would go by the metadata as well as some sort of a checksum. I'm sure the record labels would not let Apple get away with just using the Artist and Song name info.

I hope so 🙂

 

[brijazz]

However, how good is it at detecting Ripped music?

It's not available yet. No one knows.