BARCELONA, Spain - 3GSM (Feb. 12, 2007) — In response to the rapidly growing demand for mobile devices with music playing capability, Gracenote®, a global leader in technology and services that are an integral part of the digital media economy, today announced its Mobile Music Solution Suite, a toolkit of products that provides all the components for a next-generation entertainment solution for handset manufacturers, carriers, and mobile content providers. Gracenote's solution combines products and services for simple content search and discovery, music recognition, playlisting, and e-commerce, as well as allows for easy movement of music between a PC application, online music store, and a mobile device.

Gracenote's unique mix of offerings seamlessly integrates the capabilities of all three domains, and allows for powerful functionality and compatibility between them that is unavailable elsewhere in the mobile market. With 13 billion music queries processed in 2006 alone, Gracenote is uniquely positioned to deliver this unprecedented toolkit to handset makers and carriers, who can now easily create richer mobile music experiences using handsets of any class and catalogs of any size.

The Gracenote Mobile Music Solution Suite includes:

• Music Recognition – Gracenote's Mobile MusicID™ for the handset, and MusicID™ for the PC use multi-step recognition methods to enable the industry standard in identification, categorization and organization of digital music. Both feature the Gracenote Global Media Database, the world's largest database of music information, accessed by more than 200 million people annually.
• Playlisting Capabilities – Gracenote Playlist™ automatically generates digital music playlists and is the only global solution that can facilitate uploading of content from the PC to the mobile device via the touch of a button. Gracenote offers a companion version for the handset that allows the user to easily generate one-touch "More Like This" playlists by simply selecting one or more songs or artists as seeds. A mix of music from related artists and genres is then returned to the listener. Users also have the ability to create customized playlists on the PC – such as specific songs for their gym routine, or lazy Sunday mornings - and make them available on the handset.
• Music Discovery - Gracenote Discover™ is a music recommendation engine that offers high quality, multimodal discovery of new tracks, albums and artists from within almost any mobile music catalog, allowing users to easily find new music via their mobile device or PC. Gracenote's recognition and playlist technologies integrate with Discover, allowing the users' current collection - any song, album or artist - to be a seed for finding new music from the mobile content catalog.
• Enriched Content –Gracenote offers mobile users a richer music experience by providing premium content - artist biographies, album art, album reviews and full song lyrics - that can be automatically delivered with music identified on a mobile device or PC.
• Music Search – Searching music catalogs is easy with Gracenote's search capabilities. With more than 60 million tracks in Gracenote's database, listeners have the ability to quickly and easily learn more about their music and favorite artists. Users simply type in the name of their favorite artist, album or track – or may even type in a line from the lyrics to a song - and are linked directly to the best content in the store.
• Link to Commerce – All of the above can be connected to mobile e-commerce through Gracenote Link™, a comprehensive content management system that seamlessly aggregates and enables delivery of rich third-party content directly related to music as it is playing.
• Professional Services – This complete toolkit is provided as an integrated set through Gracenote's Professional Services organization. With more than 10 years of experience in implementing music features for PC, Online, Consumer Electronics, Auto, and Mobile products, Gracenote's team has intimate knowledge of the design, technology, and implementation challenges around music and can help customers quickly launch integrated mobile and PC experiences.

"Consumer demand for the combined convenience of a mobile phone and music player has increased dramatically. Handset, carriers and mobile content providers can no longer think of the mobile device, online music store, and PC as separate domains," said Marc Theeuwes, director, mobile products, Gracenote. "Gracenote's Mobile Music Solution Suite addresses this trend and accelerates the potential of mobile music through the integration of those three domains, bringing them together in a way that makes the best use of the PC while also utilizing the mobile phone's communication and connectivity capabilities."

"Sony Ericsson continues to set the bar high for the music experience on its Walkman® phones, and by powering out TrackID™ feature with Gracenote's Mobile Music ID, we enable our customers to discover music whenever and wherever they want," Jose-Maria Bescos-Caceres, global product manager for Sony Ericsson. "In addition, we have integrated Gracenote's music identification technology into our mobile phone music management software, Disc2Phone. Combined, these services enable Walkman phone users to easily manage their mobile music and ease content discovery seamlessly between the mobile device and PC."

Gracenote's Mobile Music Solution Suite will be available globally this Summer.

Gracenote at 3GSM
Gracenote will be holding meetings in a hospitality suite located in Hall 4, Level 3, Stand No. 4.3HS19 at 3GSM this week. To book a meeting during the show please contact Samantha Steinwinder in Gracenote U.S. public relations at 206.760.9809.

About Gracenote
Gracenote is a global leader in embedded technology, enriched content, and data services for digital entertainment solutions within the Internet, consumer electronics, mobile, and automotive markets. Formerly known as CDDB®, Gracenote delivers a substantially improved consumer experience in digital media devices and applications, plus media monitoring and other data services, making it an integral part of the digital media economy. Gracenote powers leading services including Apple iTunes, Yahoo! Music Jukebox, AOL Winamp; home and automotive products from Alpine, Panasonic, Philips and Sony; and mobile music applications from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, KDDI (Japan), KTF (Korea), Musiwave (Europe), and others. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote has offices in New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Seoul. For more information about Gracenote, please refer to www.gracenote.com/corporate/