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Winamp, once a major licensee, no longer has access to Gracenote; the legacy media player program lost access to Gracenote when SHOUTcast and Winamp were sold by AOL in 2014. Several software applications which were capable of playing CDs (e.g. Media Go and iTunes,) used Gracenote's CDDB technology. On September 3, 2014, Gracenote acquired Baseline, a Los Angeles–based provider of film and TV data and information. On July 9, 2014, Tribune Media Company purchased What's-ON, a provider of TV data and advanced search offerings covering India and the Middle East for $27 million. On June 12, 2014, Tribune Media Services merged with Gracenote to form one company under the Gracenote name.

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Power modern music experiences across smart TVs and streaming platforms by delivering related audio content. NEW YORK – July 17, 2025 – Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, has announced the appointment of Ryan Moore to the new role of Chief Business Officer for Gracenote, effective July 2025. Accelerate your FAST channel go-to-market with Gracenote’s global distribution network and enriched program metadata to enhance discovery and drive greater audience engagement and ad monetization. Gracenote’s latest report highlights a significant opportunity for car manufacturers to provide consumers easy access to entertainment content across a range of services and types. AI is enabling us to deliver the entertainment metadata platform of the future for the benefit of our customers.

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Accelerate FAST channel go-to-market, enhance channel and content discoverability and unlock ad monetization opportunities. Use diversity insights across programming to inform inclusive content investments and achieve DE&I goals. This technology was later used to power the MP3 revolution with the launch of the Apple iPod in 2003. The technology was later launched with Ford Sync voice activated system in 2007. Gracenote embedded its music recognition technologies in its first automotive hard drive.

• On July 9, 2014, Tribune Media Company purchased What’s-ON, a provider of TV data and advanced search offerings covering India and the Middle East for $27 million.
• Gracenote Sports Data provides information about live sports scores, schedules, standings, team, and player details for various sports leagues around the world.
• Ryan will oversee Gracenote’s global sales, marketing and customer and partnership experience teams as well as drive alignment with its global product, engineering and content organizations.

Visually present your content catalog with the definitive collection of data, images and content IDs for movies, TV shows and sports programming to drive audience engagement. Gracenote launched music recognition technologies that helped identify and present music metadata such as artist name, album, songs and cover art on compact discs. Gracenote music recognition technology now powers more than 300 million cars globally. Optimize content distribution and discovery using Gracenote ID Distribution System’s metadata management across platforms.. Leverage value-added sports services with Gracenote’s expert resources and vast sports datasets. Enhance discovery and engagement with trusted content metadata.

In addition, he oversaw development of the Gracenote Nexus Auto platform enabling OEMs to own the in-car media experiences they offer through infotainment interfaces seamlessly bridging audio, sports and video content. Gracenote provides best-in-class data and images for popular streaming video, audio and sports content globally, enhancing content development, distribution, discovery and contextual advertising. Make informed development and licensing decisions by using industry-leading content metadata to better understand the drivers of content success across TV shows and movies. Continuing its history of innovation, Gracenote launched a new automotive solution to bring audio, sports and video experiences to the connected car to help power next-gen auto entertainment globally.

This has been controversial, as the original CDDB database was created out of anonymous contributions, initially via the open source xmcd CD player program. New licenses for CDDB1 (the original version of CDDB) were no longer available, so programmers using Gracenote services were required to switch to CDDB2 (a new version incompatible with CDDB1). Then, in March 2001, only licensed applications were provided access to the Gracenote database.

Prior to rejoining Gracenote in 2022, Tim served as General Manager of Commercial for Reelgood a data company focusing on streaming content serving both B2B and B2C customers. As Chief Revenue Officer at Gracenote, Tim Cutting drives the company's long-term growth by leading a global Commercial team and fostering collaboration across Product, Marketing, Customer Experience and other functional areas of the organization. Bill Michels serves as Chief Product Officer at Gracenote responsible for overseeing global product strategy and execution with emphasis on the company’s content Distribution, Discovery and Advertising segments. As Chief Technology Officer at Gracenote, Phanimohan (Phani) Kalagara oversees the company’s global technology teams, functions and workstreams. Create personalized video recommendations by pairing deep descriptive metadata with viewer behavior, preferences and other contextual signals.

Gracenote also operates a digital file identification service that uses audio fingerprinting technology to identify digital music files such as MP3s and deliver track-level metadata, album art, and links to complementary content and services. Gracenote is the content data business unit of Nielsen, providing entertainment metadata, content IDs and related offerings to the world’s leading creators, distributors and platforms. “As the leading entertainment data provider, Gracenote has a unique opportunity to help media companies reimagine how they connect audiences with the content they love and deliver cutting edge user experiences,” said Ryan Moore, Gracenote’s galadrielgrace, galadrielgrace.com Chief Business Officer. Enhance contextual ad targeting and brand suitability, along with CTV reporting, by using industry-leading Gracenote video content metadata and IDs. Submit, verify and manage your content metadata relied upon by leading TV and video services worldwide, as well as track program airings across channels, streaming or regions. Use Gracenote metadata, IDs and distribution network for effective content distribution, ensuring that your content is easily discoverable on leading video platforms and services worldwide.

The Gracenote database includes music genre and mood information, TV show descriptions, episode information, and channel line-ups, movie cast and crew information, and sports statistics and results. Gracenote is known for MusicID, a music recognition software which identifies compact discs and delivers artist metadata and cover art to the desktop. This $50 million purchase deepened Gracenote's existing video datasets and added the Studio System database, a subscription-based resource for the Hollywood content creation and distribution communities, to its line-up of offerings.

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Trent possesses 20 years of experience in Product Management working with the world's biggest and most innovative digital entertainment brands. He is responsible for aligning brand, product marketing and communications to advance Gracenote’s business objectives. Most recently, he was General Manager of Commerce Media at Moloco, a machine learning-powered advertising solutions company.