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Cloud services in retreat after MegaUpload strike

...has been running in beta with four listed but unconfirmed partners: 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi, and Amazon MP3. While there has been speculation that MegaBox is... Read more

24 January, 2012
doubleTwist Player 1.6.2

doubleTwist Player 1.6.2

...your songs for missing artwork and supply high-quality cover art using Gracenote's extensive licensed artwork database. Note: if your songs already contain embedded... Read more

25 November, 2011
Drumline 2.0

Drumline 2.0

...photos Added Expert (6 regions) to drum head configuration Additional stroke types (Gracenote, Brush, Triples --NEW!) Another instrument!! Dynasty Tenor Drums in Corps Configuration with... Read more

4 March, 2011
CD Assistant 4.22.4163

CD Assistant 4.22.4163

CD Assistant is the free way to track your CD collection. Includes Gracenote CDDB2 support with easy-to-use wizard (automatically add CDs to your... Read more

24 December, 2010

Music tug of war means users lose out

...Roxio delivered a different message. Roxio products were no longer supported by Gracenote's CD information service, which housed the database Smith had been using... Read more

24 May, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Napster faces further legal action

The record industry will take the online music swapping service back to court next week, saying it is not effectively blocking a list of half a million songs Read more

22 March, 2001 by John Borland
Sun x64 AMD Opteron Processor-Based Platform and Solaris 10 OS Play Music to the Ear, Handling 2 Billion Queries Per Month

Sun x64 AMD Opteron Processor-Based Platform and Solaris 10 OS Play Music to the Ear, Handling 2 Billion Queries Per Month

Gracenote wanted to implement reliable server technology for 24x7 service and scale to... Read more

1 March, 2008

Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharing

...is licensed. Detica is currently testing different music-fingerprinting products, including Shazam, Gracenote, Digimark and Audible Magic, to gauge whether the file contains licensed or... Read more

26 November, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Creator 7

...can now rip to the Ogg Vorbis format, and it uses the Gracenote CDDB2 service to identify audio CDs. Another utility lets you create disc... Read more

5 March, 2004 by Douglas Dixon

Yahoo rethinks music downloads

The Internet firm is investigating ways of developing a music-download service Read more

9 February, 2004 by Jim Hu and John Borland
Mega Disc 1.1

Mega Disc 1.1

...data discs. It catalogs your music CD collection using information from the Gracenote CDDB music recognition service (the world s largest music database), so you... Read more

26 January, 2004

Employers crack down on MP3s

...people's attention," Ross Blanchard, director of marketing at online song database Gracenote, said of the IIS settlement. Then there's the bandwidth strain. Companies... Read more

27 June, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Will the real Eminem CD please stand up?

...world, according to one closely watched measure. That figure comes care of Gracenote, a company whose window into computer users' listening habits offers a sobering... Read more

29 May, 2002 by John Borland

Consumer PCs?

...time you put a new CD into the drive, it connects with GraceNote's CD database online, and downloads all the track details - exactly the... Read more

7 September, 2001 by Guy Kewney

Napster faces double threat in court

...of spellings ("Metalica" instead of "Metallica," for example), has bought access to Gracenote's vast database of common song misspellings and has its own automated... Read more

10 April, 2001 by John Borland

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