Mechanism joins Gracenote Content
Partner Program
Date : 26 February 2004
Recognized as the industry standard for music
recognition services, Gracenote licenses its technology to thousands of developers
of consumer electronics devices and online media players. Its services are available
in virtually any device that plays digital music, including media players, home stereos,
MP3 players, car stereos - even wireless devices.
With the capacity of today's CD changers and mp3 players to hold hundreds or even
thousands of songs, music management is increasingly important. Identifying music
is the first step towards providing people with an improved music listening experience.
Gracenote is extending the benefits of music recognition to provide new information
services for digital music and media, including the ability to clean and organize
files from any source, generate customized music playlists, and deliver relevant
content.
Gracenote's information services are used by leading media players including AOL's
WinAmp, Apple's iTunes, RealNetwork's RealOne Player; and consumer
electronics manufacturers including Pioneer, Philips and Sony.
A common misconception is that CD's contain descriptive information such as song
titles, and artist and album names; most do not, and the result is the now familiar
"Disc 1, Track 1." Gracenote was created with the goal of providing a better
way to identify and manage CD's. Users of the service submit music-related information
into a database, which is then processed and published to Gracenote's user community.
The result is a richer, more interesting music experience, and simple, one-touch
digital file creation for millions of music fans around the world.
Founded in 1995 as CDDB, Gracenote's music recognition service quickly became
a "must-have" application for Internet-enabled music players. In 1998,
the company joined forces with ION, a multimedia software company who pioneered
the use of related content with CD-ROMs, and extended its core music recognition
services to encompass all aspects of digital music and media information. From a
user base of 2,700 in 1997, Gracenote now serves over 1 million users each day across
the globe.
Mechanism Records joins the Gracenote Content Partner Program supplying a
whole new range of informations with our releases which will benefit our customers
with a very useful added value. |
