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Napster Inks Deal with Gracenote
Earlier today, Napster Inc. announced a partnership with Gracenote, a technology company specializing in music recognition, content delivery, and database management. Gracenote has been compiling a music database since 1995 for online information access and software applications. With the new partnership, Napster will be allowed to leave Gracenote's licensed music on its popular file-swapping service.
"We've been exploring a partnership with Gracenote for months and the ability to quickly enlist their support in our file-filtering efforts will greatly improve our effectiveness," said Hank Barry, Napster CEO.
Gracenote president David Hyman added, "Our core business is really not helping peer-to-peer networks filter. But it was just a perfect fit."
When Napster users search for the MP3s they are interested in, the Napster program "matches" file names with artist and title names. Yet, many users are finding new ways to search for files that Napster has blocked, such as changing the song title of "Unforgiven" to "Un4given." Hyman said his company will also be helpful to Napster because they are building a custom database to provide Napster with an extensive list of such file name variations.
"The great thing is we have every misspelling and possible variant for every file. For example, we have 50 different ways to spell 'N Sync because our data base is based on user submissions," Hyman said.
Terms of the agreement with Gracenote were not disclosed.
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spyed
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Date: March 13, 2001 @ 10:51 PM
blah!@ |
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Exxtreme
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Date: March 14, 2001 @ 5:27 AM
There are at least some million ways to spell N Sync.. |
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milladrive
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Date: March 14, 2001 @ 6:38 AM
The funniest part of this sad stupidity is that whenever I get 0 hits because of a filter, I simply whip out Napigator, go into MusicCity, and there it is in literally HUNDREDS of hits. Hahahahahahahaha.
Hey, I don't fault Napster for doin' what they need ta do ta survive, but I just _know_ they're chuckling at all this. The list of songs they've been ordered ta delete doesn't even scratch the surface of songs in the community, not ta mention they're the most popular songs on today's earth, making them easily findable elsewhere. |
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doobybrain
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Date: March 14, 2001 @ 4:33 PM
"The great thing is we have every misspelling and possible variant for every file."
haha, yeah right. like they think that we cant create more. there are many bands and groups out there with very odd names that could easilty be spelled in a gazillion ways...
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