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How can I Watermark Audio?

WTF2	Date: February 13, 2012 @ 7:25 AM How can I Watermark Audio? I have been working with creating my own samples and they can be anything from electronic creations to real instrument notes or chords or vocal slices or speech slices or phonemes or any sound at all like a distress call of a squirrel or whatever. Anyway I got to thinking hey man these are mine I do not mind people getting them and even using them free of charge unless they are like in a movie or used in a hit and make lots of money from it or something but how will I know for sure it was my sample. I know you can tag MP3’S and some other files I guess but that can be removed and besides when it is used in a mix that will not be there anyway., So I figure that if I can somehow water mark it in a way that is non - interfering to it’s function I can know it is my sample . Is there a way to do that ? Or maybe a program that will watermark or signature audio? I do not want tp encrypt it or lock it I want the audio usable . I want the watermark it to be unnoticeable - almost undetectable. Thank you.
elektronz	Date: February 13, 2012 @ 9:01 AM the only thing i can think of is to either do a low render of the file or maybe put in some hiss which can be heard but not disrupt the audio to much or a beep or click
WTF2	Date: February 13, 2012 @ 9:44 PM Well thanks for the advice that is about what I may have to do. I did some checking since I posted that and there is such a program I guess maybe there are several and at least three techniques , pretty advanced stuff to me but I tried and I tried but the program keeps crashing , I could not afford it anyway assuming I can even figure out how to use it or exactly what they are talking about , I get the basic idea though. The price is around $80 to $1200 . I guess I Could afford 80 but still I am not sure that would support my needs I think they said the audio had to be at least a couple seconds in length and some samples would be much shorter and also the price is relative to the amount of electronic signatures , I guess one would be enough though as long as nobody knew what it was when you think about it. The serial number of the program in connection with the code produces a unique code that can only be detected by that program. Anyway here is what I found on the net. Frankly I am not so sure that even though this is some very advanced stuff this is not in the alpha stage of development like DVD ‘s the technology does not always work the way it was intended to . BUT someday , yes someday it will. Again thanks for your help elektronz http://audiowatermarking.info

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