| Founded | 2010 |
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| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Products | Online music database |
| Employees | 20 (2011) |
| Website | www.decibel.net |
Decibel Music Systems Ltd., usually called Decibel, is a company based in London that collects, organises, enhances and delivers data on physical and digital music products, recordings and performances.
It provides software and metadata for businesses to create applications for management and search of digital media. Decibel provides its data management technology to the streaming media, mobile, Digital music, digital rights management, computer hardware markets and the wider music industry.
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With a catalogue of 22 million tracks and technology born from CIA intelligence-gathering, Decibel's technology inter-relates the available knowledge on each track, album, movement, tempo, venue, studio, date, rights-holder, performer, geography and instrument and links this metadata. The product stores up to 120 fields per track and can perform machine translation into more than 20 languages.
Decibel sits on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing network and provides data and discovery services through a Cloud API.[1]
Decibel offers a number of API packages for application developers, with licenses based on usage and scope. Decibel also create online and mobile music discovery engines for music merchandising.[2]
The company was founded by Evan Stein and Gregory Kris. Stein is a musicologist, metadata keynote speaker[3] and former Director of Technology at the office of the New York County District Attorney. Kris is a dot-com entrepreneur and was ranked 63rd in the "100 most influential technology investors in Europe" for the Daily Telegraph[4]
Decibel is in part funded by the Technology Strategy Board and professional investors and is in private ownership.
In 2010, Decibel was one of ten finalists for most innovative B2B music industry services at MidemNet Lab, a conference run by Midem[5], and won awards for innovation from TechCrunch[6], Microsoft and Music 4.5[7]