Napster to take fingerprints
News Whether Relatable's technology will prove more effective than the current text-based system is unclear. Napster said Friday that it has licensed acoustic fingerprinting technology from Virginia-based Relatable that identifies songs using the...
[April 23, 2001, 8:32]
Napster lifts some song-swapping limits
News The new "fingerprinting" filters were produced by US-based company called Relatable. Napster has released a new version of its software that allows customers to find many songs that recently disappeared from its file-swapping service.
[June 25, 2001, 15:42]
Napster blasts court's technical meddling
News According to the court documents, this filtering system took the work of 40 engineers and about $2.25m to develop, even outside the costs of licensing the basic technology from software company Relatable.
[August 9, 2001, 16:22]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News Napster, with partner Relatable, worked to develop a way to identify and filter material. Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture called Snocap...
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
