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Gracenotes and iTunes in lyrics talks
A deal between Apple iTunes and Gracenotes may be in the works according to this recent Reuters report posted by PC Magazine. Gracenotes has gained the rights to legally distribute lyrics from BMG, Universal Music, Sony/ATV and other content ...
Gracenote knows what you listen to, but is anybody worried?
Bob Sullivan’s MSNBC article is trying to pin some privacy issues
on Apple’s iPod, and they’re not sticking. It talks about the Gracenote CDDB, the database that lives behind the scenes
and gets queried every time you put a ...
App Store Stories: One man's app. Three corporations. Lyrics 2 against the world.
When Joris Kluivers (@kluivers on Twitter) set out to write his Lyrics app for iPhone, he never intended to personally take on Apple, Sony, and Gracenote. Kluivers, a student at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, was just trying to get his foot in ...
iTunes and Gracenote help expose classical plagiarism
She was among the most mysterious figures in classical music: Joyce Hatto, a renowned pianist who retired from active performance in 1976 due to ill health. With the help of her husband and his private recording studio, however, Hatto released scores ...
iTunes 8.2 to include Blu-ray support?
Update: Our bad... the date on the MacRumors comment was in late April, and this recycled up into our queue due to an editing mixup. Apologies –Ed. There's a new iTunes beta version out in developers' hands straight from Apple, and a forum ...
First Look: TuneUp for Mac now ready to tackle your iTunes disorganization
Despite the presence of a checkbox to "keep iTunes library organized" in the application's preferences, the fact remains that iTunes tracks -- coming from a plethora of sources and of varying vintage, and sometimes numbering in the thousands -- are a ...
Plagiarism follow-up
Last week, Mike posted about the curious case of Joyce Hatto, the famed pianist who after retiring in the 1970's, released many new recordings in the 1990's. A Gramophone magazine writer found that the Gracenotes database used by iTunes matched a ...
Shazam for the iPhone
Song Identification is very near to my heart. For a while, I tried resurrecting my "Listen.app" iPhone utility but a GraceNote license was out of reach (about the price of a typical condo) and early talks with Shazam (via Tapulous) never went ...
Blast from the Past: iTunes 1
As Billy Joel said in "Keeping the Faith", it seems like "I've been lost in let's remember" when I recently stumbled across this review of iTunes 1 by Daniel Chvatik of atpm.com. How far we've come. iTunes 1, which worked on all Apple systems ...
Apple files patent for synchronized lyrics display
If there's one music player feature that never seemed to catch on, it's showing off the lyrics of a given song. The record companies quibbled a little bit about cover art, but now even iTunes will provide you with cover art, and yet lyrics are still ...
TUAW Best of the Week
Wind us up, put us down, start us off and watch TUAW go. TUAW is running circles around the news more than you know. You feel missed posts running through your bones, so we pick 'em out, yeah, we pick 'em out. Best of the week. We pick 'em out, we ...
Hands on with Lyrics+
I love singing along to my iPod. Not well, mind you, but loudly with lots of enthusiasm. I assure you my children love this exactly as much as you'd expect. So I was excited to test out Lyrics+ from SchroederDev. Lyrics+ helps find and display lyrics ...
TUAW Best of the Week
Time keeps on slipping (slipping, slipping) into the future. If you didn't get a chance to spend enough quality time here at TUAW during the week, you might have missed a few great posts here or there. So, to make it easier for you, catch up with our ...
Ask TUAW: Swapfiles, Bluetooth Caller ID, Audio interfaces, iPhone streaming and more
As mentioned on Wednesday, we again had a bunch of questions last week and so we'll have a second round of Ask TUAW this week. This time around we'll be tackling questions about delete swapfiles, bluetooth caller ID, external audio interfaces, ...
