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Gracenote, Inc.
Gracenote headquarters in Emeryville
Formerly
Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
Company type
Subsidiary
Founded
October 5, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-05)[1]
Headquarters
Emeryville, California
,
United States
Key people
Sujit Dasmunshi(General Manager)
Tim Cutting (CRO)
Trent Wheeler (CPO)
Roger Rached (CTO)
Products
Music Data
Video Data
Sports Data
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology
Digital Video Fingerprinting
Acoustic Fingerprinting
Revenue
$98.76 million (2014)[2]
Number of employees
1,700+ (2016)
Parent
Nielsen
Website
www.gracenote.com
Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video, and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies worldwide.[3] Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. From 2008 to 2014, it was owned by Sony, later sold to Tribune Media, and has been owned since 2017 by Nielsen Holdings. In 2019, Nielsen Holdings announced plans to split into two separate publicly traded companies, Nielsen Global Connect and Nielsen Global Media. In October 2022, Nielsen Holdings completed the sale of Global Media, including the Gracenote subsidiary, to a private equity consortium.
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DataBase) after it had been changed to a proprietary license and renamed "Gracenote". As of 24 April 2006,[update] the Freedb database held just under 2,000...
metadata (on CD tracks, artists, etc. as created by a tag editor) to Gracenote's CD database other than iTunes, and was still listed as such even in 2019...
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