Gracenote Mobile MusicID - Help Them Convince RIM!
While I was at CES I came across a live demo Gracenote on a BlackBerry 8300 Curve. Most of you will have no idea what Gracenote is unless you have used it before. Gracenote is a whitelabel software company that provides software for devices to manage and identify music. Whitelabel means that they don’t sell the software themselves rather they sell it to your carrier or cellphone company and they sell it to you.
I got a chance to try out the Gracenote application to identify some music and it worked like a charm on their test 8300. It even gives you the lyrics and bio for each song you identify. I know many of the new Sony Ericsson Walkman cellphones come with this feature FREE and my best friend loves it. The software they showed off at CES was actually smart enough to fix the MP3 files on your device when you sync it with your computer. That means you would get the correct album, artist, and title automatically fixed on your BlackBerry. Talk about cool!
Gracenote is trying to convince RIM to put the application on their devices but they say RIM has a few hangups. The main hangup is that they can’t seem to find a way to make money from it so they were not that interested. Personally I would take a different approach. RIM is trying to target the consumer market so why not offer consumer friendly applications?
You can read more about the Gracenote application on their website or check out the pictures I took from their booth at CES. Personally I think that if BlackBerry users showed an interest in the new application RIM would actually think twice about releasing it.
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January 15th, 2008 17:36
One thing at a time:
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1) If anything, that Gracenote thing would make me feel less envious of forum mates that have iPhones and rub that exact same feature in my nose!
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2) The link you provide says “Gracenote Mobile MusicID works together with BlackBerry software and BlackBerry smartphones and blah blah blah…” So, are they in bed already or not?
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3) That’s got to be the best picture of a finger smudge I’ve ever seen.
January 21st, 2008 12:01
Luc,
Thanks for making fun of my bad Canon shots
They seem to have developed the software separately from RIM and are trying to convince them to buy it… I hope
June 17th, 2008 12:34
[...] Gracenote offers, like lyrics lookup, music discovery, and handsfree music navigation. Around CES time, it sounded like RIM was being troublesome about getting the service onto BlackBerrys, but I think [...]
June 17th, 2008 12:44
[...] Gracenote offers, like lyrics lookup, music discovery, and handsfree music navigation. Around CES time, it sounded like RIM was being troublesome about getting the service onto BlackBerrys, but I think [...]
June 17th, 2008 12:47
[...] Gracenote offers, like lyrics lookup, music discovery, and handsfree music navigation. Around CES time, it sounded like RIM was being troublesome about getting the service onto BlackBerrys, but I think [...]
June 20th, 2008 04:52
[...] Gracenote offers, like lyrics lookup, music discovery, and handsfree music navigation. Around CES time, it sounded like RIM was being troublesome about getting the service onto BlackBerrys, but I think [...]
June 20th, 2008 04:57
[...] Gracenote offers, like lyrics lookup, music discovery, and handsfree music navigation. Around CES time, it sounded like RIM was being troublesome about getting the service onto BlackBerrys, but I think [...]