If you own music, your tracks end up in other people's uploads: re-encoded, cut down, wrapped in a video. Riffhold finds them. You add your originals once, and every file you check is compared with your catalog, and only yours.
Key takeaways
- Your catalog is private: tracks are matched only against your own checks.
- Catches exact copies, re-encodes, excerpts and audio inside video.
- Every check ends in one of five verdicts, with the seconds that line up.
- Use it as a widget on your site or through the withConflux Content API.
What it does
Riffhold fingerprints each track you add and then deletes the audio. When you check a file, it compares the file and its acoustic fingerprint with your catalog and returns a verdict:
- Owned: the exact file, or a segment of it.
- Protected: the same recording, re-encoded, compressed or cut.
- Review: similar but not certain, for a person to decide.
- Own duplicate: your track, uploaded by you.
- Clear: no match in your catalog.
What it doesn't do
Riffhold isn't a database of every song. It only recognises tracks in your own catalog. To screen uploads for commercial music in general, use the Music Rights Check. It also has limits worth knowing: music mixed far under speech is usually not detected, and large speed or pitch changes go to review rather than a firm match. A match is evidence for a person to look at, not a ruling.
Two ways to use it
- The widget: add one script tag to your site and let people check a link or an upload against your catalog. Monthly, or a one-time launch licence for the first 100 buyers.
- The API: teams on the withConflux Content API ask for the
audio-ownershipneed on the same endpoint and key they already use, and manage the catalog over/api/v1/riffhold/tracks.
Add your first tracks and run a check. See how Riffhold works.