The company responsible for the collection and distribution of royalties for public performance of music in Brazil, ECAD, is preparing for full implementation of a new software that will be responsible for identifying songs played on television programs nationwide.
The system, dubbed the Audiovisual Ecad.Tec CIA was created in partnership with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ) and is in a period of “pre-production”, testing and refinement since 2014 but should be operational by the end of this year.
With the application, the organization will be able to capture and analyze songs played on television programs, novels or movies through identification algorithms, even they are part only of the background track or that are mixed with other sounds. – which should guarantee more flexibility in the detection works in this medium
The software is part of the automation process of identifying songs by ECAD, which has been upgraded in recent years to speed up the recognition of audio content. The agency is now responsible for making the identification of all music performed on radio, television or events such as concerts, festivals and others in the country, to ensure the copyright transfer to the authors of the works.
Up to eight Years ago, the process contents of this recognition was done completely manually by listening to employees making and checking of the programming of different means for counting the reproduction of each song. The company then began a process of renewal of its infrastructure by investing in the creation of the first software in partnership with PUC-RJ, the CIA Ecad.Tec Radio – able to capture, record, identify and store the songs performed by the radio.
“It’s like the Shazam program, but it runs continuously,” said Quality Manager for ECAD IT Services, Mark Éboli. “Each song has a unique DNA, it has a composer copyright information, phonographic producer and performer. We feed our base with audio record company and when the system listens to music, he makes a comparison and identifies the phonogram.”
In the old model, each company employee took about 40 minutes to check a time schedule, on average. Now with the software fully implemented by the company, you can identify songs in an hour of programming in just four minutes.
In addition to the software reinforcements, the company also invested in its own infrastructure with a data center itself and dedicated servers based on 3PAR storage equipment in partnership with HP and Micro-Media Informatics. Today, the ECAD generates a quantity of semi-annual data of about 1.6 Petabytes of content, or more than 430,000 hours of recording per month, by monitoring 600 radio and 48 TV channels, 24 hours a day. According to the company, the updates to your infrastructure led to an increase of 182% in revenues, which pull a record of ECAD in rights transfers last year.
The update of the systems is also preparing the company for the next step of your process automation. According to Éboli, ECAD already have plans to migrate their processing systems to the cloud to gain scalability, availability and agility. Currently, the organization is already doing some cloud experiments orchestration systems such as email and back-up, but no step was taken in the company-core sectors.
“We study put a part of radio recording in the cloud, but still not an imminent priority. We are expanding the availability of other cloud services for critical systems we take there, “he said.
In addition, the company is looking beyond the implementation of the Audiovisual Ecad.Tec CIA and CIA Ecad.Tec Radio and now has plans to adopt tools to automate content detection on the Internet – still is done manually in the company.
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