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title: Helios Music
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vendor: Cartesian Theatre
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criteria: 2
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link: https://heliosmusic.io/
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tags:
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- software
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- music
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date: 2019-09-26
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draft: false
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---
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Helios is a powerful B2B technology to allow searching of large commercial music libraries by using music itself as the search key.
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There are many uses for Helios. Here are a few examples.
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* You have a digital jukebox in bars, restaurants, and pubs.
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You want venue patrons to be able to play more music like whatever they just paid to hear.
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* You have a music catalogue management platform that publishers and labels use to track their digital assets.
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Your customers want to be able to search within their own catalogue using your slick platform.
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* You have an online digital music store and you’d like to be able to make intelligent product recommendations to your customers
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based on what songs they've already got in their shopping cart before they check out.
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* You have a streaming music service whose DJs need inspiration for coming up with either channel based or custom curated playlists faster.
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* You market software for DJs, such as plugins to manage their library.
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While they're playing live a plugin in their favourite software suggests some tracks to mix or play next.
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* You have a commercial music library of any size. Perhaps you are a major record label, perhaps independent,
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or maybe you've amalgamated music from multiple labels, independent artists, or publishers.
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You need to assist your clients obtain synchronization licenses quickly for appropriate pieces of music for their
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film, TV, documentary, commercials, video games, or some other context.
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There are countless other examples, but let's talk about this last one.
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Nearly always your client approaches you with samples already in hand.
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"Hey, do you have anything like this?"
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This could be an MP3 or a YouTube video URL.
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Because Helios allows you to search the catalogue using music itself as the search key,
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you could use the customer’s samples directly to help them find what they’re looking for.
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Traditionally, in the absence of such technology, the way this has been done for decades may surprise many.
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It is both costly and involves many hours or even days of manual human labour which delays the business process.
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The business must manually search, usually using textual tags, and listen to a great deal of irrelevant music in the hopes of
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finding the one the client is actually willing to spend money on.
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