What if Common was guiding your music selections as you drive? That’s the promise of GraceNote CarStars, a GPS-enabled music recommendation system where music celebs talk to you and recommend music. In a lengthy personal demo at CES, we sat back in a brand new Nissan Altima and tapped into a vast selection of rap music, thanks to the guidance of MIMS and other artists. GraceNote has an audacious goal to tap most major artists –we asked about Wilco and they said Jeff Tweedy would likely do it – to provide guidance.
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Sony Buys Gracenote for $260 Million
Sony Corporation of America has agreed to pay $260 million (plus contingencies) to acquire Gracenote, the company that owns and operates the former CDDB database used to power track name and album info lookups in a variety of jukebox applications and music services—including Apple’s iTunes. Gracenote also offers lyric lookup services and track matching services, whereby users (say, on a mobile phone) can record a snippet of a song and Gracenote will do its best to identify it.
Gracenote Gets into Identifying DVDs
Gracenote’s CDDB database of audio CDs has long been a valuable tool for music fans: just pop a CD into your computer drive (or even drives on select home electronics) and the CDDB can usually retrieve the artist, album and track titles, and other information. The CDDB isn’t perfect—and sometimes makes some amusing mis-identifications—but it’s usually a lot more convenient than filling out track, title, genre, and other information yourself.
Gracenote Gets All The Words Right
You know you do it: you’re humming a tune to yourself and you think “What are the words to that song, anyway?” Off to Google or another search engine, which presents you with seemingly endless array of printed lyrics to the tune. Great! Except when you start to poke through the hits, you often find you’re being treated to versions you know are incomplete or wrong, and even find yourself trapped in pop-up-infested, ad-driven link-farm sites which provide only a headache as scammers blatantly game search engine algorithms. And most of the time, the lyrics you see are a copyright violation: like songs themselves, lyrics may be copyrighted and, if they are, they can’t be reprinted legally without permission or license. And the artists certainly aren’t being compensated.
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