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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Gracenote topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Companies, Technology and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Gracenote. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.
Related topics
43
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
49
Extracted relationships
114
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
49
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Customers · 13 topics
Products · 11 topics
History · 9 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Controversy · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
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)
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Gracenote connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Gracenote shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 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 Another extracted example is Gracenote → Because CDs, CD, CDDB, CDs, Contents, Its, June, Kan, On April, Scherf, Sony, Steve Scherf, Table, The, This, Ti Kan, TOC. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Gracenote
Top relations
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
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 114 structured relationships around Gracenote. Examples in this analysis include Gracenote → Formerly → Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000) and Gracenote → Founded → October 5, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-05). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Gracenote
Formerly
Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Founded
October 5, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-05)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Headquarters
Emeryville, California, United States
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Key people
Sujit Dasmunshi (General Manager)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Key people
Tim Cutting (CRO)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Key people
Trent Wheeler (CPO)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Key people
Roger Rached (CTO)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Number of employees
1,700+ (2016)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Parent
Sony Corporation of America (2008–2014) Tribune Media (2014–2017) Nielsen (2017–present)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Music Data
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Video Data
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Sports Data
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Digital Video Fingerprinting
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Products
Acoustic Fingerprinting
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Revenue
$98.76 million (2014)
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Type
Subsidiary
1.00
infobox
Gracenote
Website
www.gracenote.com
1.00
infobox
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Gracenote bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Music, Media and Data. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Gracenote
Music
Media
Data
Services
Tribune
Tv
Database
Audio
Including
Sports
Technology
Million
gracenote
Music
Media
Data
Services
Tribune
Tv
Database
Audio
Including
Sports
Technology
Million
automatic content recognition
Recognition
Acr
Services
Audio
Digital
Metadata
Video
Technology
Music
Companies
Compact
Cd
cddb
Database
Compact
Disc
Cd
Player
Technology
Gracenote
Data
Products
Media
Business
Audio
tribune media
Tribune
Nielsen
Global
Holdings
Music
Digital
Sony
Announced
Million
Business
Player
Sold
tribune media services
Tribune
Nielsen
Audio
Including
Global
Holdings
Music
Digital
Sony
Tv
Announced
Million
media go
Tribune
Nielsen
Global
Holdings
Music
Digital
Sony
Announced
Million
Business
Player
Sold
groove music
Recognition
Sports
Video
Data
Services
Audio
Digital
Metadata
Media
Gracenote's
Technology
Tv
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Gracenote, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Gracenote with Customers. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Gracenote
Nodes50
Edges49
Triples114
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Gracenote to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies, Technology & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
