Explaining 24/7 Music Recognition

In this help article, we’ll explain what our 24/7 music recognition add-on is and how it can help your station!

We’ll also explain the features and functionality for the following music recognition pages:

Music recognition log, and
Music recognition summary.

Please note: This is a paid add-on and is not included with our base plans. To learn how to purchase this add-on for your Radio Cult account, refer to this help article.

What is 24/7 music recognition

Think of it as an always-on, always-listening Shazam built specifically for your station. It uses real-time audio fingerprinting to detect every track played on your stream, automatically logging all played tracks for royalty reporting. Additionally, it listens so your Now Playing metadata can update in real-time—across our players and our API.

Whether you’re broadcasting live or running a pre-recorded show, this feature ensures your station’s data is always accurate and up to date—without lifting a finger.

How does 24/7 music recognition help your station

Here’s how it helps you run a tighter, more professional operation:

Hands-Free Royalty Reporting:

Say goodbye to spreadsheets and manual logs. Every track is automatically detected, timestamped, and stored—ready for licensing and royalty bodies. You’ll have everything you need, whenever you need it.

Accurate Now Playing Metadata—Even for Pre-Recorded Shows

Now Playing data doesn’t have to break when you’re not live. Our system keeps your metadata accurate and consistent across all of our players and your API integrations, no matter what kind of content you're streaming.

Less Work, More Free Time

Manual reporting is time consuming, boring and, frankly, a waste of your time. With 24/7 Music Recognition, you eliminate guesswork and free up your team to focus on what really matters—growing your audience and creating great content.

One Platform for Everything

Track logging, Now Playing data, streaming, and hosting—all in one place inside your Radio Cult account. No need for third-party tools or fragmented workflows.

Navigating to music recognition

To navigate to the music recognition pages, please complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to https://app.radiocult.fm/.

2. Click Reports in the top navigation bar.

3. To access the Music recognition log page, click the Log button under the Music Recognition section in the left hand side menu.

You will now be on the Music recognition log page.

To access the Music recognition summary page, click the Summary button under the Music Recognition section in the left hand side menu.

You will now be on the Music recognition summary page.

Explaining the music recognition log page

The music recognition log page is a record of every track detected to have been broadcast from your station’s stream within the selected date range.

The log is displayed in descending order i.e. the most recently detected tracks are displayed first.

The page when first accessed, defaults to displaying all previously detected media for the last seven days. You can select the following date ranges using the date period select:

Today
Last 7 days,
Last 2 weeks,
Last 4 weeks,
Last 3 months, and
Month to date

Or you can select any custom date range by using the calendar date picker.

For each track of previously detected, the music recognition log page displays the following:

Playout start: the date and time the track started to play, localized to your computer's time zone.
Playout end: the date and time the track stopped playing, localized to your computer's time zone.
Title: the track’s title.
Artist: the track’s artist(s).
Album: the track’s album.
Label: the track’s music label.
ISRC: the track’s International Standard Recording Code (ISRC).
UPC: the track’s Universal Product Code (UPC).
Match score: This score shows how confident our system is that the music it detected is correct. Higher scores mean a stronger match.
Listener count: the number of unique listeners who listened to any portion of the track whilst it was detected to being broadcast.

The most recently detected tracks are automatically and periodically added throughout the day - no action is required by you. However, if you want can’t wait, click the Add latest results button to retrieve the latest data.

Please note: the last ~10 minutes of activity will not be included.

Finally, if you want to export the displayed log results to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) formatted document, click the Download CSV button. The generated document will include all detected tracks for the currently selected date range.

Explaining the music recognition summary page

The music recognition summary page is a summary of each track detected to have been broadcasted from your station’s stream within the selected date range.

The summary is displayed in descending order i.e. tracks are ordered by the most recent time they were played, with the most recently played tracks appearing first.

The information for each track is rolled up. So if a song was played 5 times it will only display once in the table with number of plays shown as 5.

The page when first accessed, defaults to displaying all summary entries for the last seven days. You can select the following date ranges using the date period select:

Today
Last 7 days,
Last 2 weeks,
Last 4 weeks,
Last 3 months, and
Month to date

Or you can select any custom date range by using the calendar datepicker.

For each track summary, the music recognition summary page displays the following:

Title: the track’s title.
Artist: the track’s artist.
Album: the track’s album.
Label: the track’s music label.
ISRC: the track’s International Standard Recording Code (ISRC).
UPC: the track’s Universal Product Code (UPC).
No. of plays: the number of times any part of the track was detected to be broadcasted within the selected date range.