Gracenote
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• provides music and video metadata and technologies to entertainment products and brands in the United States and internationally
• Gracenote provides music recognition technologies that compare digital music files to a worldwide database of music information, enabling digital audio devices to identify the songs
• The company licenses its technologies to developers of consumer electronics devices and online media players, who integrate the technologies into media players, home and car stereos, and digital music devices
• The company operates five business verticals: Music, Video, Sports, Automotive and Video Personalization
• Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the company employs approximately 1,700 people in 20 offices around the world
• Gracenote is a division of Tribune Media Company which owns and operates a sizable portfolio of television and digital properties which bring entertainment, news and sports content to local and national audiences
• Gracenote is best known for MusicID, a music recognition solution that identifies compact discs and delivers artist metadata and cover art to the desktop
• Gracenote database includes music genre and mood information, TV show descriptions, episode information and channel line-ups, movie cast and crew information and sports statistics and results
• Companies including music services, TV providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and automakers use Gracenote data to power their content recognition, universal search, navigation, linking, discovery and personalized recommendations functionality
• Formerly CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records