[advocacy] Fwd: RE: a few questions

[Daniel James]

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Subject: RE: a few questions
Date: Tue Jan  8 04:11:48 2002
From: Philippa Morrell <philippa.morrell at ifpi.org>
To: "'Daniel James'" <daniel at mondodesigno.com>

We have certainly been investigating putting the ISRC into
watermarks.

IFPI does not endorse or recommend any one particular technology for
watermarking.  In tests that have been carried out - although I was
not involved, I believe that SDMI watermarks do not affect the audio
quality.

Trusting this has been of use.

Kind regards,

Philippa J.K. Morrell
Metadata Executive
IFPI

DDI Tel: +44 (0) 20 7878 6801
DDI Fax: +44(0) 20 7851 9663
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Email: philippa.morrell at ifpi.org
Website: www.ifpi.org

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Daniel James [mailto:daniel at mondodesigno.com]
Sent:	08 January 2002 10:42
To:	Philippa Morrell
Subject:	Re: a few questions

Thanks for your swift reply!

> Certainly in general an ISRC when presented
> visually is structured like this: ISRC GB-XX1-02-00001; however
> when it is encoded into an appropriate digital format it would look
> like this: GBXX10200001

I understand from your site that the ISRC code is designed to be
watermarked into the audio file, rather than simply assigned as a
label. This is presumably designed to stop third parties from
changing the ISRC.

Which tools does the IFPI recommend for making the watermarks? Are
the watermarks designed as part of the SDMI system? Do they (subtly)
affect audio quality?

Sorry to ask so many questions!

Daniel James

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