CANNES, France/PRNewswire/ -- MIDEM Conference
-- The world's hottest Cloud-based music services depend on Gracenote®
to drive and enrich their user experiences. Powerhouses including Sony,
Omnifone, PANDORA®, MOG, and Spotify are all bringing their music
service customers more of the music they love by tapping into
Gracenote's music data and technology.
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Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity: Sony's new Cloud-based music
service, which gives music fans access to millions of songs from major
and independent labels, leverages Gracenote's music metadata and
MusicID® and Discover ? technologies to allow subscribers to sync their
existing songs and playlists on their PC into the service, as well as
drive intelligent recommendations.
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Omnifone: Gracenote's MusicID and Discover recommendation
technology is utilized by Omnifone, the leading independent provider of
Cloud-based music services, across 21 countries worldwide. Omnifone
provides its suite of MusicStation Platform APIs to partners to enable
the rapid development and rollout of award winning Cloud-based music
services across virtually any device type.
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PANDORA®: One of the world's most popular Internet radio
services, with more than 75 million registered users, taps Gracenote
Lyrics to enhance its award-winning music experience. The Gracenote
Lyrics service?which is the largest catalog of authorized lyrics in the world--lets music fans sing along to their favorite beats.
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MOG: The "all-you-can-eat," on-demand listening service also
licenses Gracenote Lyrics for hundreds of thousands of tracks from more
than 30,000 music publishing catalogs, including those from the four
major publishers and dozens of prominent independent publishers.
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Spotify: For London-based
Spotify, Gracenote's MusicID advanced audio fingerprinting technology
powers the service's Local File capabilities, which let its users mirror
their existing songs into the Spotify service, allowing them to access
and enjoy music they already own.
"The popularity and growth of Cloud-based music services is
undeniable, and it's clear that access to unlimited legal music is the
future of the digital entertainment experience," said Craig Palmer,
president, Gracenote. "Our data and technology makes those experiences
as fulfilling and exciting as possible, and we are pleased to be
partnering with the services that are not only leading the way but
setting the stage for what's next, and that see the tremendous potential
for the entire music industry."
Gracenote at MIDEM
Gracenote executives will be attending MIDEM 2011. To set up a briefing please contact Veronica Skelton at 415.342.3435 or vskelton@gracenote.com.
About Gracenote
A pioneer in the digital media industry, Gracenote combines
information, technology, services and applications to create ingenious
entertainment solutions for the global market. From media management,
enrichment and discovery products to content identification
technologies, Gracenote allows providers of digital media products and
the content community to make their offerings more powerful and
intuitive, enabling superior consumer experiences. The company's
solutions integrate the broadest, deepest, and highest quality global
metadata and enriched content with an infrastructure that services
billions of searches a month from thousands of products used by hundreds
of millions consumers. Gracenote's customers include the biggest names
in the consumer electronics, mobile, automotive, software and Internet
industries. The company's partners in the entertainment community
include major music publishers and labels, prominent independents and
movie studios. Gracenote, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation
of America, is headquartered in Emeryville, California. www.gracenote.com.
Gracenote and MusicID are registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
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