What is mufin?

The conventional ways of navigating through music collections and creating playlists are tedious and time-consuming. Discovering new music is often too much effort and not enough result.

That is why the Fraunhofer Institue – the co-inventors of the MP3 format – and MAGIX – the leading multimedia applications company – have teamed up to develop the solution that we now call mufin (short for music finder).

The heart of mufin is the sophisticated analysis of the frequency spectrums of each track.

mufin extracts all key properties like tone color, rhythm, instruments, tempo, architecture, etc. and creates a unique fingerprint directly from the audio file. It works with any type of audio content – including unreleased independent music and even the tape recordings of your bathroom singing – and independently of subjective editorial classifications, limiting genre and mood categories or other users´ behaviour and ratings.

With mufin you are selecting the solution that follows a standard. The feature technology AudioID is part of the MPEG-7 standard for description and search of audio and visual content. Due to the exact and standardized specifications, interoperability is virtually guaranteed long-term on a worldwide basis.

MAGIX owns the complete technology and all corresponding rights and patents on analysis, characterization, identification and fingerprinting of audio signals as well as respective databases and software.