EMERYVILLE, CA. (Top40 Charts) Gracenote today announced that its music recognition technology and metadata is powering music matching in the Xbox
Music service. With an Xbox
Music Pass, the Gracenote-powered feature will let Xbox
Music users identify albums and tracks they already own, unlock them in the cloud and stream them for free across Windows 8, Windows RT tablets and PCs as well as Windows Phone 8 smartphones, iOS & Android phones and the Xbox 360 and Xbox One entertainment systems.
Xbox
Music subscribers will be able to unlock digital music files in the cloud regardless whether albums and songs were purchased from other services or ripped from CDs. This nearly eliminates the need for music fans to spend time manually rebuilding their entire collection. In addition, subscribers can tap into Gracenote's vast collection of music metadata to drive data-driven music recommendations, edit song and genre information, manage collections and fill-in missing album cover art.
"A big frustration for music fans is having to completely rebuild their collections when switching between streaming or download services," said Stephen White, president at Gracenote. "Gracenote music recognition and data will make it easy for Xbox
Music users to migrate their collections to the cloud without searching, repurchasing or even uploading."
Xbox
Music provides a simple and convenient place to migrate collections to the cloud, then add more music, enjoy playlists and discover new artists. It leverages Gracenote's extensive database of "audio fingerprints" to identify and match the millions of songs in the Xbox
Music catalog. When Xbox
Music fans scan their music collection, these fingerprints are matched to the Gracenote database to pick the correct albums and tracks in the Xbox
Music service.
To learn more about Xbox
Music or sign up for the Xbox
Music Pass subscription today, visit https://www.xbox.com/en-US/music
