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Cyanite announces new investors to support vision of universal music translation

New investment round fuels Cyanite’s goal to develop universal intelligence that understands, connects, and recommends the world’s music

Berlin, July 27, 2022 – Cyanite, a tech company with various solutions in AI-powered music tagging and search, has closed an investment round with leading entrepreneurs from the music and technology industries. The goal is to sustain the company’s vision of universal music translation. 

The investment round was led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß. Other experienced music and tech experts, such as Michael Shmilov (former COO of Viber), Patrick Joest (former EVP Global Content Partnerships & Sync at BMG), as well as Lars Ettrup (CEO and co-founder of Linkfire) support the round with their deep market expertise. 

In addition, family office Lioncorn Capital and other tech business angels (Daniel Kondermann, Oliver Lesche, Andrea Kranzer, Edmund Ahrend) invested in this round. The round builds on earlier investments in which BWM GmbH also participated.

The investors support Cyanite’s vision to provide the entertainment and advertising industries with an AI-powered universal music translation engine capable of finding the objectively appropriate music for any desired emotional target. 

The news follows considerable consolidation in the AI-powered music tagging and search market, as many competitors such as Musiio, Musimap and Musicube have been acquired by larger companies in 2021 and 2022.

Cyanite was launched in 2019 with the purpose of connecting everyone with the right music at the right time. The AI is used by different leading music rights holders, music tech companies and brand agencies to gain deeper insights and understanding about individual songs. Cyanite makes it easy for them to take control of their repertoire by offering intuitive AI solutions that provide better ways to sort, search, and match songs.

Markus Schwarzer, CEO, Cyanite, said: “The investment demonstrates the excitement in the worlds of music and technology about our objective of making it possible for any input – be it keywords, sounds, free text, or images – to be understood by AI and translated into music.

“Our investors recognise that we are closing in on our goal, and that trust shows us that we are in the right place at the right time. At this time when competing companies are being bought out, we’re excited to continue our journey towards creating a universal intelligence that understands, indexes and recommends the world’s music.”

Investment round leader Oke Göttlich, former finetunes founder, said: “I am excited to be playing a part in the future of Cyanite. They have the right team and a powerful plan for the future of music recommendation, one that has the potential to transform the way that music’s emotional power is understood, quantified and monetised.“

About Cyanite

Cyanite helps music companies to turn their catalogues into their own personal Spotify – powering music libraries with the simplicity, visibility, and functionality to perform how they and their users expect them to. 

From its main office located in Berlin, Cyanite builds powerful AI-based analysis and recommendation solutions that enable effective tagging and music search to improve the ability of music, entertainment, and advertising companies to deliver the right songs for the right search.

Cyanite helps companies to unlock the full potential of their music catalogues to leverage their full depth at a time when more music is accessible than ever before. Their goal is to let everybody find the right music for any use case – and the right use case for any song.

Cyanite supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and advertising industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are the production music libraries APM Music and Far Music (RTL), the radio station SWR, the music publishers Nettwerk, NEUBAU Music and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies amp sound branding, Universal Music Solutions, and Human Worldwide.

Cyanite’s vision is to become the universal intelligence that understands, connects and recommends the world’s music – an intelligence that can translate music into anything and anything into music.

Website: https://cyanite.ai/

Web App: https://app.cyanite.ai/register

API: https://api-docs.cyanite.ai/

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Cyanite appoints Jay Ahern as Director of Music Industry Relations

Mannheim/Berlin, March 10, 2022 – Music industry veteran Jay Ahern joins the further growth of Cyanite as Director of Music Industry Relations and brings with him an impressive track record from the music industry with previous stations at LANDR, PIAS, Domino, Beatport, and The Orchard.

With a background across the spectrum of digital distribution, A&R, product, partnerships, and operations, Jay always saw a loss of business due to incorrect metadata throughout his career and the opportunity to leverage Cyanite’s mission to enable the music industry to develop products with cutting-edge creative metadata and search algorithms.

In his previous position at LANDR, Jay has shaped the global expansion strategy and acted as the representative for Europe. At IRRUPT he set up product collaborations with Native Instruments, Roland and Ninja Tune, and developed the digital distribution of Berlin’s infamous Hard Wax record store.

At Beatport, he was a central figure to launch Beatport Sounds and served as an A&R and North America consultant at finetunes/The Orchard.

Throughout his entire career, he has always nurtured his artistic side while working in the music business itself. Based in Berlin, he has been a producer for over 10 years with live performances in Fabric, Berghain, and many other clubs in Europe, Japan, and North America. 

Cyanite CEO Markus Schwarzer says: “After 5 minutes of our first call, it was crystal clear that Jay is the perfect addition to our growing team. With his background, he brings a deep understanding of our customers, knows the intricacies of the music industry, and has a strong grasp of technology and AI. We are very excited to have Jay on board and look forward to working with him to further cultivate and grow our relationships and partnerships with the music industry.”

Press and picture material can be found in a printable resolution via this link.

Background to Cyanite:
Cyanite empowers companies from the music and creative industries with algorithms for music analysis and discovery. The start-up is one of the leading independent innovators in the field of music-AI and supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and creative industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are APM Music, Mediengruppe RTL, BPM Supreme, SWR, the music publishers Nettwerk, NEUBAU Music, and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies Universal Music Solutions, TAMBR, and amp sound branding. The 16-person team is mainly located in Berlin and Mannheim and supported by a renowned group of international business angels and family offices from the music business, AI sector, and startup world.

Press Inquiries 

Jakob Höflich

Co-Founder

+49 172 447 0771

jakob@cyanite.ai

Headquarter Mannheim

elceedee UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Badenweiler Straße 4

68239 Mannheim

Berlin Office

Cyanite

Gneisenaustraße 44/45

10961 Berlin

Website: https://cyanite.ai/

Web App: https://app.cyanite.ai/register

API: https://api-docs.cyanite.ai/

LinkedIn: Cyanite.ai

Twitter: Cyanite.ai

We are proud to announce our latest API update. This update includes new sub-genres, improved genres, improved similarity search, and more. For details, see full documentation here. 

Now let’s take a closer look at it!

New Sub-Genre Classifiers

A ton of new sub-genres were added to the existing ones. Among them: blues-rock, folk-rock, hard rock, indie alternative, psychedelic progressive rock, punk, rock-and-roll, pop-soft-rock, abstract IDM left field, breakbeat DnB, deep house, electro, house, minimal, synth-pop, tech house, techno, trance, contemporary RnB, gangsta, jazzy hip-hop, pop-rap, trap, black metal, death metal, doom metal, heavy metal, metalcore, nu-metal, disco, funk, gospel, neo-soul, soul, big band swing, bebop, contemporary jazz, easy listening, fusion, Latin jazz, smooth jazz, country, and folk. 

Improved Genre Classifier

The genre classifiers have also been improved to give more accurate results. The country, folk, and punk genres are now deprecated to be replaced by the country, folk, and punk sub-genres.

Improved Similarity Search

The algorithm powering the Similarity Search has been improved. The Similarity Search now yields better results when searching for similar tracks based on musical features.

Removal of old GraphQL API types

Finally, we completely removed everything InDepthAnalysis related from our GraphQL schema.

To see the full list of changes, head over here.

Go ahead and start coding

If you want to get a first grip on how Cyanite works, you can also register for our free web app to analyze music and try out similarity searches without any coding needed.

If you are a coder and want to join the ride, please send your application to careers@cyanite.ai.

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APM Music partners with Cyanite to Enhance Music Tagging

Mannheim/Berlin/Los Angeles, September 9, 2021 – APM Music, the largest production music library in North America, and Cyanite, a technology company developing a suite of AI-powered music search products announced today a strategic partnership that will provide users with improved tagging and metadata to enhance their search queries.

A superior music discovery experience begins with content that is comprehensively, consistently, and accurately tagged. With an ever-growing music library such as the one APM Music has been providing the marketplace for nearly four decades, maintaining high-quality tagging and precise metadata at a large scale is a primary concern. Incorporating Cyanite’s AI will allow APM Music to introduce human-assisted auto-tagging to the music submission and review process, thus increasing the quality and consistency of tagging.

APM Music’s President/CEO Adam Taylor comments: “For APM Music, accurate and reliable music tagging has always been of the utmost importance and we are aligned with Cyanite on this constant strive for quality. Markus and the team have proven that they are able to quickly react to our feedback and improve their algorithms at a rapid speed. We are excited to integrate artificial intelligence into APM and create the best possible support for our team.”

Cyanite’s artificial intelligence listens to and categorizes songs, helping to deliver the right music content, no matter the use case. Integrating this technology will benefit the end user by ensuring search queries continue to yield accurate and tailored results as APM’s music library expands in depth and breadth.

Markus Schwarzer, CEO of Cyanite: “We look forward to working with such a prestigious and renowned partner as APM Music. Everyone on their team is a unique expert in their field. Being the chosen AI partner for the important and extensive transition into this new age of music distribution fills our entire team with pride.”

The addition of Cyanite’s technology extends APM’s commitment to continually increasing the quality and performance of its search engine, thereby delivering a superior quality discovery experience to match its richness of catalog.

Anyone wishing to try Cyanite’s technology can register for the Web App free of charge and upload music or integrate Cyanite into an existing database system via their API.

Full press material including German press release can be found via this link.

Background to APM Music:
APM Music is located in Hollywood, California, and is the premier go-to source for production music. Founded in 1983, APM Music is the largest production music library in North America. To find out more, please visit www.apmmusic.com. 

Background to Cyanite:
Cyanite believes that state-of-the-art technology should not be exclusive to big tech companies. The start-up is one of Europe’s leading independent innovators in the field of music-AI and supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and audio industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are the Mediengruppe RTL, the record pool BPM Supreme. the radio station SWR, the music publishers NEUBAU Music and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies Universal Music Solutions, TAMBR, and amp sound branding.

Press Inquiries 

Jakob Höflich

Co-Founder

+49 172 447 0771

jakob@cyanite.ai

Headquarter Mannheim

elceedee UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Badenweiler Straße 4

68239 Mannheim

Berlin Office

Cyanite

Gneisenaustraße 44/45

10961 Berlin

We are proud to announce the latest API update. This update includes 8 new instrument classifiers, improved BPM, Key, and Time Signature detection, and improved Similarity Search.  For details, see full documentation here: https://api-docs.cyanite.ai/blog/2021/05/06/changelog-2021-05-06/

Now let’s take a closer look at it!

New Instrument Classifiers

Now, additionally to our percussion classifier, we expose the synth,  piano, acousticGuitar,  electricGuitar, strings, bass, bassGuitar and brassWoodwinds classifiers.

We also deprecated the AudioAnalysisV6Result.instruments field.

The new field AudioAnalysisV6Result.instrumentTags exposes a list of detected instruments throughout the track.

New Key and BPM classifier

The FullScaleMusicalAnalysis and FastMusicalAnalysis types are now deprecated and will be removed from the API on 15 June 2021.

The new AudioAnalysisV6Result.key and AudioAnalysisV6Result.bpm expose improved key and bpm values over the now deprecated FullScaleMusicalAnalysis and FastMusicalAnalysis.

New Time Signature Classifier

The AudioAnalysisV6Result.timeSignature now exposes the time signature of the track (e.g. 3/4 or 4/4) as a string.

New Improved Similarity Search

We improved the performance of our similarity search based on audio features. In addition to that, we exposed a new single field that allows searching similar tracks for both library and Spotify tracks with additional filters for bpm, key, and genre.

Go ahead and start coding

If you want to get a first grip on how Cyanite works, you can also register for our free web app to analyze music and try out similarity searches without any coding needed.

If you are a coder and want to join the ride, please send your application to careers@cyanite.ai.

For more thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and Music Catalogs, check these out:

Cyanite API Update – Version 6 is now live!

Introducing: Cyanite’s Keyword Cleaning System for Music Libraries

The 4 essential steps for analyzing music with neural networks