Gracenote Global Media Database

Gracenote has built and maintains the largest and most comprehensive global database of music and video information in the world.

The World’s Largest and Most Comprehensive Media Database

With more than 250 million consumers using more than 2,000 Gracenote-enabled applications, the Global Media Database processes tens of thousands of queries daily and billions of queries per month.

To achieve its breadth and depth of information Gracenote employs a combination of four different methods to populate its Global Media Database:

  • Direct feeds from more than 3,000 content owners, including major and independent labels, publishers, movie studios, distributor, aggregators, artists and other media information partners, as well as content partners including Tribune Media Services, the British Film Institute, CD Journal and others.
  • For classifications like Genre and Artist type for music and Synopses and descriptors of Movies, Gracenote employs music and video experts and top media categorization, genre and schema specialists covering all major regions of the world.
  • Gracenote's Media Technology Lab scientists and engineers take things further by utilizing technologies like Machine-Listening and Digital Signal Processing to create deep and detailed track level descriptors such as Mood and Tempo. Members of the Media Technology Lab include recognized industry leaders such as Markus Cremer, PhD, who is Director of the Lab and formerly a leading scientist for Fraunhofer Labs, inventors of MP3. The Media Technology Lab also works with research partners including Philips, Fraunhofer and Sony.
  • To round out its database, Gracenote incorporates contributions from community members who use Gracenote-enabled products and services. Using this data, Gracenote is able to determine the popularity of particular content as well as regional preferences all the way down to the metro level.

Only Gracenote brings all of these elements together to create the broadest, deepest and most regionally relevant global set of information.

Industry's Only Licensor of Lyrics, Cover Art and Contributor Images

Gracenote was the first company in the digital media industry to develop an authorized Lyrics service. Through agreements covering 10,000 music publishers including all the majors, as well as dozens of prominent independents, Gracenote offers access to complete, accurate and licensed lyrics for hundreds of thousands of lyrics mapping to 1.5 million tracks. Gracenote provides lyrics to major brands including Google, Yahoo!, MTV and Metro Lyrics.

Gracenote is also the only licensee of Cover Art from major labels, and maintains the world's largest repository of Cover Art and artist and contributor images.

Global Reach

Gracenote's Global Media Database contains content from more than 200 countries and territories and supports more than 80 languages. Its Global Genre System has more than 2,000 microgenres mapped to culturally relevant genres.

Rich Metadata for Music and Video

The Global Media Database offers the deepest, richest and highest quality metadata for music and video in the world, including:

Music Metadata

  • 8 million CDs, 100 million Tracks
  • More than 400,000 Artists
  • Artist, Album & Track
  • Artist, Type, Era, Origin, Genre
  • Track-level attributes
  • Global Popularity

Video Metadata

  • More than 400,000 DVDs
  • More than 12,000 BD releases
  • More than 800,000 Film & Video Titles
  • Title, Director, Actor
  • Cast and Credits

Enriched Content

  • Movie and Episodic TV Synopses and Ratings
  • Lyrics
  • Album Art
  • Artist Bios & Reviews
  • Actor and Director Bios
  • Trailers and images
  • Commerce Links to Leading Stores

A Single Source Provider for the Global Market

Gracenote is the only single source provider of advanced media identification, management, discovery and enrichment solutions, offering the world's largest, broadest, deepest and highest quality global metadata and enriched content for TV, Film and Music.

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