Asia Copyrights Enterprise · Engine v5

Music identification
infrastructure for the
copyright collection era.

A production-grade engine combining multi-resolution acoustic fingerprinting (TCBC), dual neural watermarks (WavMark + SilentCipher), and a self-owned audit blockchain (ACE Chain) into one identification pipeline. Built and operated for ten-million-track catalogues and Thai-Korean bilateral collection.

Explore the API Open ACE System dashboard
Asia partner pipeline Thailand DIP certified CMO CISAC affiliated workflow
GET /healthz → probing… checking
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Tracks ingested
—
TCBC hashes indexed
—
ACE Chain blocks
100%
Bench top-1 (clean)
Identification stack

Four orthogonal defenses,
tuned for an Asian catalogue.

The engine is not a single algorithm but a defense-in-depth pipeline. Each layer covers attack vectors the others cannot — pitch shift, broadcast EQ, cover versions, and tampered uploads — producing an identification verdict that holds across mp3, radio, and short clip evidence.

TCBC fingerprint

Multi-resolution FFT with subband cross-band correlation and chroma-derived hashing. Robust against radio EQ, pitch shift, and MP3 codec distortion.

100%
Top-1 (49 tracks × 7 attacks)
1.87M
Hashes / 49 tracks

Dual neural watermark

WavMark (16-bit, 16 kHz) and SilentCipher (40-bit, 44.1 kHz) coordinated end-to-end. Provenance survives crop, transcode, and short clips where fingerprints alone fail.

100%
Clean detection
0.81
Bit-acc tempo+

ACE Chain audit

Self-owned HMAC-signed hash chain with Merkle batch proofs and CID prefix index. No external L1 fees. IPFS pinning for durability. Every ingest, identify, monitoring and settlement event is sealed.

—
Live blocks
5 types
genesis · ingest · identify · monitor · settle

HRTD cover detection

Harmonic-rhythmic temporal descriptor for cross-version retrieval. Identifies covers, remixes, and live performances against the studio reference.

49
Indexed curves
Covers80
Validated benchmark

FCW provenance stamp

Self-owned QIM watermark for clean-path tamper-evidence. 100% clean round-trip. A fast cryptographic stamp, complementary to attack-robust layers.

100%
Clean recovery
QIM
Quantization-index modulation

Stream supervisor

Always-on workers for HLS broadcast, YouTube ingest, and Spotify discovery. Each match flows directly into the chain and the settlement queue.

4
Workers active
Linux
Production runtime
Public surface

A focused API.
Four endpoints. No ceremony.

Authentication is a single X-API-Key header. Health is open so partner societies can verify uptime without credentials. Uploads cap at 50 MB. Every response carries an x-request-id for ACE Chain trace.

GET /healthz Public

Liveness and chain integrity probe. No authentication required.

// Live response from this server 
// loading…
GET /v5/stats X-API-Key

Store, neural, RTAM and audit chain counters — one snapshot for monitoring dashboards.

curl https://ace-engine.com/v5/stats \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ACE_API_KEY"

// returns
{
  "store": { "tracks": 49, "tcbc_hashes": 1868958, "hrtd_curves": 49 },
  "neural_store": { "vectors": 0, "dimension": 128 },
  "rtam": { "history_rows": 0 },
  "audit": { "blocks": 3669, "chain_valid": true }
}
POST /v5/identify X-API-Key

Run the full identification pipeline on an uploaded query — TCBC + neural + cover + chain seal.

curl -X POST https://ace-engine.com/v5/identify \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ACE_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@query.mp3"

// returns
{
  "verdict": "match",
  "work_id": "W0001",
  "confidence": 0.998,
  "tcbc": { "top1": "BLACKPINK — DDU-DU DDU-DU" },
  "watermark": { "detected": true, "bit_acc": 1.0 },
  "chain_block": 3670
}
POST /v5/ingest X-API-Key

Register a track. Fingerprint, watermark, neural embedding, and ACE Chain ingest block in one call.

curl -X POST https://ace-engine.com/v5/ingest \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ACE_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@master.wav" \
  -F "work_id=W0050" \
  -F "title=Track Title" \
  -F "artist=Artist"
Operational stack

Built on what production trusts.

No magic. No hosted L1 fees. The full stack is auditable, self-hosted, and operated by the same team that signs the management contracts with Asian collection societies.

Python 3.10+ · FastAPI

FastAPI factory pattern, uvicorn worker, systemd-managed restart. Single ExecStart, four endpoints.

PyTorch CPU + Numba JIT

Watermark and identification work on CPU only. No GPU lock-in, no driver dance, no hidden cost line.

FAISS IVFPQ · SQLite

10M-track ANN migration completed in design and round-4 doc PASS. Storage scales linearly with the catalogue.

nginx · Let’s Encrypt

TLS 1.3, HSTS-ready, Certbot-renewed. Reverse proxy on the same VPC as the engine for sub-millisecond hops.

ACE Chain · IPFS

Self-owned audit blockchain with optional IPFS pinning for cross-jurisdiction durability. No external transaction fees.

HMAC · X-API-Key

Application-layer auth on every protected endpoint. nginx adds TLS. Two-layer defense, zero shared secrets in code.

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