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Content ID

Content ID​

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This section only pertains to apps that sync clips to videos that are uploaded from the user’s device. Before going live with Feed Clips in your app, we’ll work with you to determine whether or not your app requires Content ID.

To ensure user-generated content (UGC) on your platform contains only Feed-licensed music, we require all Feed Clips customers that allow users to upload video content to use a music identification service (aka Content ID). Content ID checks to make sure that no unlicensed music is playing in the background audio of a user’s source video (ex: a cooking video where you can hear another song playing from the other room). If we detect music playing in the background of the source video, and we don’t have a license in place for that music, our API will instruct the customer that we can’t proceed to sync music clips until that background audio is gone.

How Content ID Works​

First, you need to create an ACR Cloud account and install either the client or server side SDK for audio fingerprint generation. For a quick comprehensive guide to setting up Content ID in your app, see: Setting Up Content ID.

When a user uploads a video, an audio fingerprint file is generated by the ACR Cloud SDK. This fingerprint needs to be sent to our API via the /audio-fingerprint endpoint so we can then run a check for copyrighted music in the source audio.

POST /audio-fingerprint

Request Body:

{  
  "clientId": "abc12345678",
  "timestamp": "2024-10-26T10:00:00Z",
  "fingerprint": "xYZ9cBa876543" 
}

Response:

{
  "canPlay": "TRUE", // Whether the audio can be played (true if not recognized or has rights, false if recognized but no rights)
  "clipId": "[1]" //The clip ID for the track if it's in our catalog and has rights (only present when canPlay is true)
}

If there is copyrighted music in the source audio, we’ll check to see if we have rights for it in the Feed Clips catalog. If we do have rights for it, the user can continue to add a music clip to the video content.

If we recognize copyrighted music in the source audio of a user uploaded video and we do not have the rights to include it in the Feed Clips Catalog, your user cannot proceed with adding another song clip until the copyrighted material in the source audio is removed. We recommend that you either ask the user to record the video without the background audio, or otherwise remove the background audio from the video file and re-upload.