Stirlitz Media Inspector

Stirlitz Media Inspector (SMI), is the first application of the advanced, in-house developed, finger printing technique 'AMF - Advanced Media Fingerprinting'. The AMF module enables Stirlitz Media Inspector to analyse competing stations playlists for radio and music TV stations, track song rotations for music companies and ad rotations for agencies.

The AMF module can be applied to other technologies and is available for customised applications.

Thanks to the advanced features of AMF it can 'detect' media-bits as short as 0.5 seconds. Fingerprints are taken from multiple places in the media file, so partial plays are detected as well, and reported as partial plays. AMF can monitor hundreds of media streams simultaneously, making results available instantaneously. Add a new media file and AMF searches the archives for past occurrences.

Sample applications of AMF are author and neighbouring rights control on audio-visual media, detection of song or other copyrighted music in commercials, controlling of advertisement rotations on analogue and digital, radio, TV and even the Internet.

Who is Stirlitz Media Inspector for?

Stirlitz Media Inspector is a professional, but extremely user friendly airplay-monitoring system. With Stirlitz Media Inspector, monitoring and analyzing competitors has never been easier, or faster! Finding out who has been playing your song [or advertisement], when and how often, is merely a mouse-click away.

Stirlitz Media Inspector is developed for:

• radio companies interested in analysing their competitors play-lists;
• music companies, rights holders and their representatives interested in monitoring airplay of their music;
• advertising companies that want to monitor their own ads and those of the competition

Stirlitz Media Inspector gives you:

• Instant access to airplay analysis and reports, on screen or as downloads
• Unlimited audio-base of songs, jingles and/or advertisements
• The possibility to analyse multiple audio-streams simultaneously
• One-click adding of new songs or advertisements to your audiobase
• Super simple configuration and an intuitive user interface.
• Data export (such as broadcast logs and statistics) to third applications
• Auto creation of clocks, based on monitored data combined with stored meta-data
• See the identified tracks/ads on the famous 'Stirlitz Media Timeline'
• Detailed customized reports

How it works

For a program that will reveal all music rotation secrets of your competitor, Stirlitz Media Inspector (SMI) works surprisingly easily. Just feed the server with the audio streams of the stations (analog, digital, terrestrial, cable, satellite, Internet) you want to monitor and import your own library from any of the main commercially available play-out systems.

From now on SMI will recognise every track played on the monitored stations as long as it 'knows' the track. Gaps can easily be filled by marking the beginning and ending of a track and enter the metadata in the system. New releases can simply be copied to a directory and SMI will automatically load it into the system.

SMI achieves a very high recognition percentage with a minimal level of false hits thanks to its great tolerance for audio disturbances such as noise, crackling etc.

SMI generates various on-screen or downloadable reports. You actually see your competitors' playlist shaping up in semi-real time, or you can browse back in history dragging the unique 'Timeline'. SMI can compare rotations of multiple tracks on multiple stations and can even assist in re-creating your competitors' clocks.

For the music and advertising industries SMI monitors rotations of tracks and ads on as many stations as you need.

SMI does not need proprietary hardware. One server can monitor up to 128 stations and the results can be accessed through the company network, or from wherever you have access to the Internet, by multiple users at the same time.

SMI is the ideal alternative for slow, expensive and inflexible reports from BDS, Nielsen and other monitoring companies.