The Head of ICT at the Ghana Music Right Organization GHAMRO, Mr. Snoopy Mike Gyamfi, has reiterated that GHAMRO shall be completing software to check all radio stations across the length and breadth of Ghana to log songs before the year ends.
For many years now, players in Ghana’s showbiz industry have suggested to GHAMRO to use special software to track songs radio stations play so the latter pay royalties to the right owners of the songs they play – musicians.
The ‘telephone nkomo’ hit maker, Snoop Mike Gyamfi, who unknown to many, is an IT specialist, explained to the media some weeks back that “in the olden days, we used the manual logging system but it did not work!
Hence, we have to make use of technology. That is why we are developing an application. It will be a distributive application; which means, it’s on a server. Everyone can have access to it once the fellow is one way or the other connected to the internet or through whatever handshake between one’s server and the system.
We can make it automatic to monitor the radio stations. In that way, we would have more computers or one computer that can search all the frequencies. On the other hand, we can also make the application so that anytime you – radio station, complete your programme, you just log in all the songs and it will reflect on our – GHAMRO server.
Again, we can also build the application in such a way that the application will itself record any number of songs that the station plays. So if the stations refuse to use the second option, GHAMRO shall come out with a standard, say the application should record 15 or 20 songs every day.