Helios Music

Helios, a registered trademark of Cartesian Theatre Corp., provides on-premise music similarity search technology for businesses and organisations managing commercial music libraries. Its software lets users search for music by using audio itself as the search key. Rather than relying on listener profiles or track descriptions, Helios analyses the sound of each supplied track through digital signal processing across time and spectral domains.

The platform is designed for a broad range of uses, including music libraries, digital jukeboxes, music stores, streaming services and catalogue management systems. It may also support plugins and workflows for DJs, mix engineers, music supervisors, publishers, agencies, artists, managers, studios and public libraries.

Helios is positioned as a flexible solution, with pricing intended to suit organisations from small studios to large record labels and commercial music libraries. It operates on-premise, so customers do not need to upload their catalogues offsite, and metadata generated from a catalogue remains the customer’s property. Software updates are available for as long as customers continue using the product.