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Gracenote

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. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio…

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Founded
October 5, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-05)
Headquarters
Emeryville, California, United States
Formerly
Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
Key people
Sujit Dasmunshi (General Manager) · Tim Cutting (CRO) · Trent Wheeler (CPO) · Roger Rached (CTO)
Number of employees
1,700+ (2016)
Parent
Sony Corporation of America (2008–2014) Tribune Media (2014–2017) Nielsen (2017–present)

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Gracenote

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples114
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Gracenote

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related to Customers · 31
Gracenote → ACR, Alpine, AmazonMP3, AOL, BMW, Bose, Explore, Google Music, Gracenote's CD, Groove Music, In, Media Go, MetroLyrics, Music Jukebox, Nissan, Panasonic, Pandora, Samsung, Sonicstage, Sony Mobile Communication
related to history · 17
Gracenote → Because CDs, CD, CDDB, CDs, Contents, Its, June, Kan, On April, Scherf, Sony, Steve Scherf, Table, The, This, Ti Kan, TOC
related to Controversy · 16
Gracenote → American, CD, CDDB, CDDB1, CDDB2, Escient, For, GPL, In, July, Many, March, New, The CDDB, Then, This
related to External links · 8
Gracenote → Evolution, Gracenote Archived, Gracenote Wikipedia Article, Sequoia Capital, Slashdot, Steve Scherf, Wayback MachineGracenote Defends Its, Wired MagazineHistory
Products · 6
Gracenote → Acoustic Fingerprinting, Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology, Digital Video Fingerprinting, Music Data, Sports Data, Video Data
related to Products · 6
Gracenote → Companies, Gracenote's, MusicID, The, The Gracenote, TV
Key people · 4
Gracenote → Roger Rached (CTO), Sujit Dasmunshi (General Manager), Tim Cutting (CRO), Trent Wheeler (CPO)
Formerly · 1
Gracenote → Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
Founded · 1
Gracenote → October 5, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-05)
Headquarters · 1
Gracenote → Emeryville, California, United States

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media music cddb data database nielsen 2014 tribune tv services million company information sony metadata technology video sports recognition gracenote's

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GracenoteFormerlyCompact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)1.00infobox
GracenoteFoundedOctober 5, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-05)1.00infobox
GracenoteHeadquartersEmeryville, California, United States1.00infobox
GracenoteKey peopleSujit Dasmunshi (General Manager)1.00infobox
GracenoteKey peopleTim Cutting (CRO)1.00infobox
GracenoteKey peopleTrent Wheeler (CPO)1.00infobox
GracenoteKey peopleRoger Rached (CTO)1.00infobox
GracenoteNumber of employees1,700+ (2016)1.00infobox
GracenoteParentSony Corporation of America (2008–2014) Tribune Media (2014–2017) Nielsen (2017–present)1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsMusic Data1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsVideo Data1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsSports Data1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsAutomatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsDigital Video Fingerprinting1.00infobox
GracenoteProductsAcoustic Fingerprinting1.00infobox
GracenoteRevenue$98.76 million (2014)1.00infobox
GracenoteTypeSubsidiary1.00infobox
GracenoteWebsitewww.gracenote.com1.00infobox

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