SERVICES

Gracenote

Gracenote is the industry standard for music recognition services and metadata. Delivering critical metadata to the world’s leading media application and device brands, millions of music fans each day rely on Gracenote’s global database of music information to learn more about the music they love.

Gracenote delivers this information, as well as recommendation and commerce links to leading online media players including Apple's iTunes, Winamp, Nero and Yahoo! Music Jukebox; as well as products from leading portable, home, car audio and cell phone manufacturers including Sony Ericsson, Samsung, France Telecom, Orange, Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, Daimler, General Motor and Toyota.

Benefits

Recognize Content and Commerce Opportunities
Gracenote's worldwide content platform offers value-added contextual information enabling recognized content to be linked to third-party commerce opportunities such as ringtones, digital downloads and more.

Promotion and Branding of Artists and New Releases
New releases are sought after by the most loyal music fans eager to take advantage of third-party content and promotions. Providing early and accurate information guarantees delivering fans unique promotional and commerce opportunities. One Submission, Worldwide Exposure One submission reaches millions of music fans. Gracenote’s recognition technology is used in over 300 million homes, cars and mobile phones around the world and partners’ data is accessed by millions of unique individuals, enabling them to find, discover and purchase music each day. Protection of Data Gracenote automatically protects and certifies the information that its partners submit so consumers see the information the way you want.

CD Text vs. Gracenote

Information about the album and the tracks are encoded in the sub- codes. This includes track name, artist, composer and genre. Not all CD Players and computer media players can read CD-Text, for instance Windows Media player and iTunes cannot.

Gracenote is a database that maintains records of the PQ coding of a vast number of albums. Since virtually no albums are alike in terms of track lengths and pauses, software used to rip or play CDs can interrogate the database for information about the Album being played.

Content Partner Program

Gracenote lets content owners manage information about artists and songs by becoming a part of the Content Partner Program. Using Gracenote’s cost-free tools, content owners can directly control the music information entered and displayed into the Gracenote database. Once in the database, Gracenote will be able to recognize the music and link it to a global network of more than 50 retail partners, including ringtone providers and online music stores. Gracenote delivers this information, as well as recommendation and commerce links to leading online media players including Apple's iTunes, Winamp, Nero and Yahoo! Music Jukebox; as well as products from leading portable, home, car audio and cell phone manufacturers including Sony Ericsson, Samsung, France Telecom, Orange, Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, Daimler, General Motor and Toyota.