Let your mobile device work for you.
Gracenote® offers wireless carriers and service providers a customized mobile solution that enables users to identify and discover new songs. Consumers simply hold up their phone anywhere the music is playing -- in a bar, at a party, or on the radio. Then a short clip of the music, from any section of the song, is matched to Gracenote's global database of audio fingerprints and music information. Once identified, Gracenote connects the user to related content for hearing, viewing, and purchase. Music fans get fast access to ringtones, full tracks, videos, and all the content that makes mobile music fun.
Waveform Fingerprint Technology
Gracenote Mobile MusicID™ uses a patent-pending waveform fingerprinting and search technology combined with the Gracenote Global Media Database®, the world's largest database of music information, to provide a robust, scalable solution. Carriers and service providers can secure dedicated capacity or can access a hosted service operated by Gracenote to share capacity among multiple carriers.
The Partner is in Control
The partner service provider uses Gracenote Mobile MusicID as the core of a revenue-generating service that they design to meet their needs:
- The partner uses Gracenote to associate their own unique content and commerce opportunities to identified songs.
- Partner content can include tracks for download, ringtones, wallpaper, videos, phone skins, and other merchandise.
- To make the service even more compelling, the partner can also license additional content such as artist biographies, album art, and music news.
- Additionally, Gracenote Discover™ generates recommendations for music, videos, and other music-related merchandise that fans can browse and buy.
How it Works
- When music fans hear a song they want to identify, they tap a command on the phone keypad to start the audio recognition process, and then hold the phone up to the music source.
- The phone captures a few seconds of the audio and extracts a waveform fingerprint of the snippet. The snippet can be from any section of the song, even the last few seconds.
- The fingerprint is sent to the Mobile MusicID recognition service from the service provider that may be located anywhere in the world.
- The Mobile MusicID recognition server compares the fingerprint to its database of reference fingerprints and responds with the exact match.
- The artist, song title and related information, as well as content like album art and download links are relayed to the fan.
Mobile MusicID can complete the entire recognition and content linking process in as little as 10 seconds.
A Global Waveform Database
- The Gracenote Media Database currently has waveform fingerprints for over 8 million music tracks and is growing by over 25,000 a week.
- The waveform fingerprint database includes music from countries around the world, providing the greatest diversity in music recognition for a global population.
- Data is delivered in UTF-8 encoded character sets, providing Unicode support for all languages.
For more information please contact GracenoteLicensing@gracenote.com
