Thefuture.FM

Thefuture.FM launched an app last week that's designed to make mixes and sets from over 5000 DJs available to fans. David Stein, Thefuture.FM's CEO and co-founder explained to Gigaom that the "key to these plans is Thefuture's own music recognition technology, which was developed with DJs and live events in mind." Through a combination of the non-interactive music service model (used by sites like Pandora) and advanced audio recognition software developed by the team at Thefuture called Mixscan, they are able to identify samples used within a single song and pay the rights holders when they're music is played.