How does the Gracenote Recognition service work?
Gracenote is primarily a music recognition service; the search engine on this Web site is just a view into one part of our database. As a recognition service, we work with software and hardware developers from all over the world, and when they license and develop with the right code, we enable their applications to access our database and recognition services. On most commercial music compact discs, there is no disc title, artist, track title, credits, or other information that a player running on your computer can extract and display for you. Because this information is generally not on the CD itself, without such a database these applications could only display text such as “Untitled” or “Track 1, Track 2.” However, a licensed application can lookup the CD in the database and return the title and track information to the application for display by the time you hear the first notes of the album.
