Helios
AI-Powered Music Similarity Search for Commercial Catalogues
Description
About Helios
Helios is a business-to-business music discovery and similarity-search engine developed by Vancouver-based Cartesian Theatre Corp. The software enables organizations to search large music catalogues using an audio track, music file, or other recording as the search input rather than relying exclusively on descriptive tags.
Helios analyzes the sound characteristics of each track across time and spectral domains. It is designed for organizations that need to identify similar music, improve recommendations, accelerate catalogue searches, or support music-licensing and content-selection workflows.
Platform & Solutions
Helios offers an on-premises music-search engine that can operate directly against a customer’s commercial music library. It can also be incorporated into existing software and catalogue-management environments through an API.
Core capabilities include:
- Searching music catalogues using an audio sample as the query
- Analyzing the underlying sound of individual tracks
- Identifying acoustically similar music
- Supporting catalogue exploration and recommendation workflows
- Assisting music supervisors with synchronization-licensing searches
- Integrating search capabilities into music and media software through an API
- Supporting streaming, digital jukebox, music-store, and playlist-curation applications
- Keeping customer catalogues and generated catalogue information within the customer’s environment
Best Fit Customers
Helios is best suited to organizations that own, manage, distribute, license, recommend, or search substantial music catalogues.
Strong-fit customers include:
- Record labels and music publishers
- Commercial music libraries
- Music catalogue-management platforms
- Streaming and background-music services
- Digital music stores and jukebox providers
- Music supervisors working in film, television, advertising, and gaming
- Software companies developing tools for DJs, editors, and media-production teams
- Artists, composers, studios, and managers with searchable music libraries
Regions Served
Canada, the United States, and selected international markets. Cartesian Theatre is based in Vancouver and reports providing software-engineering services in Canada, the United States, and internationally.
