You’d think they’d use ISRC codes as the main marker. They still use exact song length as one of their indicators and go from there. One of the problems is that the technology is very dated. They’re trying to monetize video and AV but I don’t know enough about their revenue stream to understand what is going on over there. I expect that they’ll get back on track soon enough. I have no idea why it isn’t working for everybody.Īnyway, with the decline of CDs, the big push is data mining these days (duh-it’s Nielsen).
Since it works on my iMac currently, I’m guessing that Apple’s license is still in good shape. One of their big customers, Winamp, fell off the radar for awhile. GraceNote is the only way car players can show CD titles. The big revenue stream has been from licenses for car CD players. They’ve been going through licensing issues since the purchase from Tribune Media. Although originally open sourced, I think that was dropped when bought by Sony who owned it between 2008–14. GraceNote is a Nielsen company nowadays HQ’d in Emeryville since 2017. Looks to me like the usually isn't but there is a link between a unique identifier on the CD and the GN database. As for CD-text, do you know it's always there and always contains track info? I don't know, I haven't bought a new CD for a very long time. I think the Windows equivalent (Media Player?) can access GN.ĪFAIK, it has always been possible to upload to GN, at least from iTunes. GN offers a SDK, but there is probably a licence fee, so as long as iTunes has it, there's not much point in many other apps having it.
I don't understand why apps can't just read the CD-text information why do they even need Grace Notes for that? I find that even new albums don't have album art at GN, but this problem with numbered tracks and zero CD info is REALLY new, even though it was a sporadic issue over the years.Īre there other apps that successfully read CD-text so that you at least don't have to waste a lot of time gathering your uploaded tracks, inserting the global info, and then renaming them (this also means you can't load more than one at a time before taking the time to correct the missing info, of course)? Mhschmieder wrote:If it's crowd-sourced, that's new (by my standards, that means within the past 12-15 years ), as they were completely disinterested in my offer of pro bono help (well over a decade ago).
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