Patent ID: 8634947

Claim:
A system for managing digital files, comprising: a plurality of user computers, each user computer comprising: a data store having one or more digital audio files, and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a client application configured to send a fingerprint of a digital audio file to a digital audio management system; and a digital audio management system coupled to the plurality of user computers, the digital audio management system comprising: a processor, a data store comprising metadata on a plurality of digital audio files stored on the data store of the plurality of user computers, and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising compute instructions for: associating the digital audio file with a song name, wherein associating the digital file with the song name comprises, receiving the fingerprint associated with the digital audio file from the client application on a user computer; obtaining metadata associated with one or more digital audio files based on the fingerprint, wherein the metadata comprises one or more song names associated with the plurality of digital audio files stored on the plurality of user computers, processing the one or more song names to determine a song name of the one or more song names to associate with the digital audio file, wherein processing the one or more song names includes grouping the one or more song names associated with the plurality of digital audio files stored on the plurality of user computers into one or more groups and determining the song name based on a confidence level determined based on the one or more groups, and associating the digital audio file and the plurality of digital audio files stored on the plurality of user computers with the song name.