16 Facts About Gracenote

Gracenote, Inc is a company owned by Nielsen Holdings that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide.

Formerly CDDB, Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records.

Gracenote began in 1993 as an open-source project involving a CD player program named xmcd and an associated database named CDDB.

On September 9, 2010 Gracenote received its one-billionth piece of data, with a submission about the Compact Disc release of Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.

The acquisition closed in February 2014: Gracenote was aligned with the Tribune Media Services division which focused on TV and Movie metadata and IDs.

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On September 3, 2014, Gracenote acquired Baseline, a Los-Angeles based provider of film and TV data and information.

On October 2, 2014, Gracenote purchased Australia-based TV and movie data company HWW for $19 million US to expand its Asia Pacific presence and international offerings.

On May 28, 2015, Gracenote acquired Amsterdam-based Infostrada Sports and Halifax-based SportsDirect, providers of music, video and sports data.

In September 2017, Gracenote partnered with Connekt and Ensequence to deliver real-time offers on smart TVs.

Gracenote is known for MusicID, a music recognition software which identifies compact discs and delivers artist metadata and cover art to the desktop.

The 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.

Gracenote provides its media management technology and global media database of digital entertainment information to the mobile, automobile, portable, home, and PC markets.

Gracenote operates a digital file identification service that uses audio fingerprinting technology to identify digital music files such as MP3s and deliver track level metadata, album art, and links to complementary content and services.

In December 2015, Gracenote launched its first audio technology, Gracenote Dynamic EQ, designed to help automakers and OEMs automatically tune connected car audio systems to the optimal equalizer settings for individual songs based on genre, mood and release date.

Gracenote Sports provides live scores, play-by-play data, historical results and records, schedules, player profiles, and athlete biographies for 4, 500 leagues and competitions such as the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, Premier League, F1, Bundesliga, Tour de France, Wimbledon, and the Olympics.

New licenses for CDDB1 were no longer available, so programmers using Gracenote services were required to switch to CDDB2 (a new version incompatible with CDDB1).