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African music has come to stay, and for it to be globally accessible and available, Josplay Inc. created an innovative database called African Music Library. The library aims to help preserve and provide the global music industry with the most accurate and comprehensive understanding of African music.
JosPlay Inc. is a music intelligence company behind the African Music Library. It combines human expertise and artificial intelligence to enhance African music to improve discoverability and utilization rate by music recommendation engines. JosPlay launched the library on Thursday, September 1.
The first-of-its-kind database for music, known as the African Music Library (AML), will expose African music to the world, giving them the most accurate and comprehensive understanding.
According to Josplay Inc., the ultimate goal of AML is to match the global acceptance of African music with adequate data by properly documenting the empirical and historical data about music made in Africa or by Africans in the diaspora.
The library catalogues information about artists, bands, record labels, their works, and how they are made – including instruments and genres.
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The library’s information repository ranges from music credits documenting who did what on any piece of recorded music to the detailed audio analysis of these works.
The library launched on Thursday with data on over 3,000-plus artistes across Africa and over 10 million data points on recorded musical works. It also tracks over 100 genres, ranging from oldies like Adaha to new raves like Afrobeats and Amapiano. The project took three years to develop, and it took the efforts of a team of researchers and editors across Africa collects, studies, documents, and continuously verifies information on the creators and participants (record labels, publishers, writers, producers, etc.) of all recorded music in Africa or by Africans.
According to Emmanuel Ogala, co-founder and CEO of JosPlay, “We foresee a future where Africans will be considered priority consumers of music, media, and information in their local contexts. JosPlay is, therefore, building the data foundation for the music engineers, researchers, and musicologists that will participate in this future.”
He added: “We want innovators in the African music space to have the data needed to build applications that can satisfy every African with their natural taste in music.”
The library will be open to the public and invites everyone in the African music space – software engineers, creators, researchers, record labels, media platforms, and Performance Rights Organizations – to explore, contribute, and share accurate data on music from the continent and in the diaspora.
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