Gracenote

Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. From 2008 to 2014, it was owned by Sony, later sold to Tribune Media, and has been owned since 2017 by Nielsen Holdings. In 2019, Nielsen Holdings announced plans to split into two separate publicly traded companies, Nielsen Global Connect and Nielsen Global Media. In October 2022, Nielsen Holdings completed sale of Global Media, which included the Gracenote division, was sold to a private equity consortium.

For other uses, see Grace note (disambiguation).
Gracenote, Inc.
FormerlyCompact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
Company typeSubsidiary
FoundedOctober 5, 1998 (1998-10-05)
Headquarters
Emeryville, California
,
United States
Key people
Products
  • Music Data
  • Video Data
  • Sports Data
  • Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology
  • Digital Video Fingerprinting
  • Acoustic Fingerprinting
Revenue$98.76 million (2014)
Number of employees
1,700+ (2016)
ParentNielsen
Websitewww.gracenote.com
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