EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks a decade of digital music since the term MP3 was was introduced. In 1996 digital music was just taking shape, with MP3 established as the term that would define the industry.
That same year, CDDB (compact disc database) began serving CD data, and would become the information. From five thousand CDs in 1996 to more than five million CDs and 58 million tracks in 2006, the Gracenote music database provides Ever since CDDB was created by Steve Scherf and Ti Kan, and the first Side of the Moon, was entered into their growing CD look-up database, CDDB has been used to identify the album and artist associated with nearly every CD played on a computer. The and services that add significant value to products consumers use, listen to and even drive every day.
Today, Gracenote s names in the digital entertainment, Internet, mobile and automotive changed the way that people think about and listen to music, nearly one quarter of U.S. households report owning a portable MP3 player, and technologies like CDDB have been instrumental in driving Since it was first introduced, CDDB has spawned numerous new technologies and groundbreaking products from Gracenote.
The company s the wireless industry, with Mobile MusicID becoming the standard application for music identification on mobile phones. MediaVOCS allows voice-controlled music navigation and playlisting, which will for automated playlist generation, and Lyrics significantly enrich music services offered by the leaders in digital media. Today, more than 200 Gracenote, and the company s products are Before CDDB, digital music had no artist, album and track information for every CD.
We can only wonder how input the data behind every album manually, digital entertainment industry, and we are working on further software in the coming months. According to technology market research firm IDC, worldwide unit from 50,000 in 1998 to more than 170 million in 2006, and Gracenote market. In 2006 there will be more than 15 billion searches processed online portals and communities such as Yahoo!
and MySpace, to devices and applications from Apple, Panasonic, Toyota, and Sony Ericsson, to online commerce sites such as iTunes and Rhapsody. Gracenote products are global in scale, and will be used by more than 200 million consumers in 2006, in more than 200 countries and regions, and with content in As Gracenote further expands its digital media product line, the company lyrics from EMI Music Publishing, the world s number-one music publisher, Warner/Chappell Music, the award-winning publishing arm of Warner Music Group, and leading independent Disney Music Publishing, Ice Nine Publishing, and Windswept Holdings. of thousands of new song lyrics to the Gracenote Lyrics catalog, and Gracenote is a leader in global digital entertainment technology.
Formerly known as CDDB, Gracenote provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that enable consumers to better manage, enjoy and discover digital media. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote also has offices in New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Seoul. Gracenote's solutions are embedded in leading media players such as Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, RealNetworks Rhapsody, Napster and AOL Winamp, as well as software applications for Creative and iRiver portable devices.
Gracenote's technology powers leading home and automobile consumer electronics brands such as Alpine, Denon, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems and Marantz, Kenwood, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony and Yamaha, as well as international (Portugal), Oi (Brazil) and Sony-Ericsson. For more information about Gracenote, please refer to . Gracenote and its logo are registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
and Gracenote MusicID, MediaVOCS, Discover and Playlist are trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
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