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Audio formats and quality for music recognition
Which audio and video formats AudD accepts, the 10 MB standard-endpoint cap, and practical guidance on clip length, sample rate, channels, and compression for reliable matches.
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Controlling enterprise endpoint cost
How the AudD enterprise endpoint bills per 12 seconds of audio, and how limit, every, skip, and skip_first_seconds trade cost against completeness.
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From match to decision: designing allow, block, and review policies
AudD reports which recordings matched; your platform decides what happens next. The policy inputs an AudD result gives you, how to compute matched seconds and the matched share of an upload from enterprise results, a worked decision table with code, and how to handle appeals, logging, repeat uploaders, and regional rules.
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Interpreting the recognition score
Every AudD match carries a confidence score. How to read it and how to set application-specific thresholds for auto-accept, blocking, and human review.
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Retries: what's safe to retry and what consumes a request
Which AudD API failures are safe to retry, which consume a request, and how to configure the SDK's retry budget without double-billing or duplicating catalog entries.
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Standard, enterprise, or streams: how to choose
Pick the right AudD recognition surface for your input: standard for a short clip, enterprise for long files, streams for continuous live audio.
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What music recognition matches, and what it doesn't
AudD identifies recordings, not songs. A case-by-case table of what to expect for re-uploads, noisy captures, remasters, live versions, covers, samples, sped-up audio, AI soundalikes, DJ mixes, and unreleased music, plus how to build a test set that measures it on your own audio.
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