Gracenote, formerly CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base), is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. It provides software and metadata to businesses that enable their customers to manage and search digital media. Gracenote provides its media management technology and global media database of digital entertainment information to the mobile, automobile, portable, home, and PC markets. Several computer software applications that are capable of playing CDs, for example Media Go and iTunes, use Gracenote's CDDB technology. 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. Redevelopment of Winamp continues by its new owner Radionomy who have said that future Winamp versions will have access to an online music database.

History

Gracenote began in 1993 as an open-source project involving a CD player program named xmcd and an associated database named CDDB. xmcd and CDDB were created by Ti Kan and Steve Scherf. Because CDs do not contain any digitally-encoded information about their contents, Kan and Scherf devised a technology which identifies and looks up CDs based on TOC information stored at the beginning of each disc. A TOC, or Table of Contents, is a list of offsets corresponding to the start of each track on a CD. Its original database was created from and continues to receive voluntary contributions from users. This led to a licensing controversy when Gracenote became commercialized.

Gracenote is a Filipino synco-pop-punk-electro-rock band led by Eunice Jorge who is the band's lead vocalist, and also frontman, pianist and violinist. Other band members are Jazz Jorge, Bassist, and EJ Pichay, Drums.

Their songs include "Minsan Lang Naman," "Amnesia," "Pwede Ako," and their own rendition of the classic hit "When I Dream About You."

Members

History

Members of Gracenote met at St. Scholastica’s College Manila. As with many bands, the group started with small gigs. They entered a number of band competitions, and were named first runner up at the Sing for Cancer Battle of the Bands 2008, were Nescafe Soundskool Finalists 2008, and Grand Champion of the DZUP: College Collision 2009.

In 2009 the band's bass player left and was replaced by Jazz Jorge.

In 2010 they performed at ABS-CBN’s Music Uplate Live, and later released an 8-track album entitled "First Movement" under the management of Soupstar Entertainment.