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Sony - That's Sony, Not Sony-BMG - Buys Gracenote For $260M

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2008-04-23 00:49:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...Gracenote for $260 million. Gracenote supplies the track names and other information on a CD when it's played on a computer. The company is also working on a DVD information database, and a way of identifying copyrighted material in online videos, the AP reports Sony Corp. of America VP of software Tim Schaaff said that Gracenote's platforms...
 
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Sony Buys Gracenote for $260M

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2008-04-22 22:33:32 by Mark Hendrickson in TechCrunch
...Gracenote for about $260M Gracenote provides a range of music-related solutions including MusicID, which detects which song is currently being played by an application and loads track information for the user (such as artist and album names). MusicID leverages a database of over 6M CDs and 80M tracks. Its technology has been in development...
 
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Sony to Buy Gracenote for $260 Million

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2008-04-23 16:27:27 by Chris Barylick in iPhone nano - Apple iPhone Articles
On Tuesday, Sony announced that it will be buying Gracenote (a.k.a., the "CDDB") for $260 million. Through the deal, Gracenote will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony and continue to operate separately of its new owner and Gracenote's current senior management team will remain with the company
 
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TuneUp Brings Order To Your iTunes Library (For a Fee)

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2008-05-12 21:25:03 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
...GraceNote , which features a database of over 80 million songs. The program is currently available as an invite-only beta on Windows, with a Mac version on the way If youre looking to try TuneUp out on a Windows machine, you can grab one of 100 invites here The interface is simple and intuitive. Upon launching iTunes, a sidebar appears with...
 
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TuneUpMedia.com - Clean Up Your iTunes

2008-07-15 09:07:00 by HASH0x8b8941c in KillerStartups.com - all
 
...GraceNote, which has amassed an impressive catalogue of over 80 million songs. Using GraceNote, TuneUp delves through your music collection and offers you four options: "Clean", "Cover Art", "Now Playing" and "Concerts". The first option will help with mislabeled songs and clean up multiples or things like mismatched albums. The "Cover Art"...
 
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Source: Benchmark Invests In TuneWiki To Bring Song Lyrics To iPhone

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2008-04-27 08:43:35 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...Gracenote TuneWiki as a legal song lyric wiki alone is an interesting site (they recently announced that Universal Music is permitting usage). The syncing software can turn it into a real business. Look for it to take off when official third party applications on the iPhone are released this summer. For now, though, the hacked application is...
 
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Music Network MOG Raises $2.8M From Universal, Sony, Angels Forum

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2008-04-29 19:00:19 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
...Gracenote (once known as CDDB), MOG has largely remained true to the initial concept Paul Glazowski for Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog , 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us digg Who's linking ? Technorati BlogPulse Google Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under News , social networking
 
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Music Site MOG Gets $2.8M From Sony BMG, UMG

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2008-04-29 22:58:00 by Hilary Lewis in Silicon Alley Insider
...Gracenote, which is now being sold to Sony (SNE) for approximately $260 million
 
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Shazam for the iPhone

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2008-07-10 16:45:00 by Erica Sadun in The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
...GraceNote license was out of reach (about the price of a typical condo) and early talks with Shazam (via Tapulous ) never went anywhere. So I was absolutely gobsmacked when today I found that Shazam had gone ahead and released a version of its Music Identification Software for the iPhone You hold it up to record a few seconds and Shazam...
 
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