An inside look at Gracenote

News: 2nd March 2011 by Louise Dodgson under Selling & Distributing Your Music

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You may not have heard of Gracenote before, but it is likely you will have come across its uses through services such as Apple's Genius. The intuitive technology used by Gracenote has been incorporated into many music recommendation services, and with so many artists sharing their music all over the web, it can be one of the primary ways of getting your music noticed amongst the milions of other tracks available through Spotify, Pandora and so on. So how does it all work? The BBC article below takes a deeper look at the inner workings of Gracenote...