Gracenote Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

App Store Stories: One man's app. Three corporations. Lyrics 2 against the world.

by Erica Sadun (Oct 28th, 2009)

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 the App Store door, not go toe-to-toe with three ...

iTunes 8.2 to include Blu-ray support?

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2009)

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 poster over at Mac Rumors found a little something ...

Gracenotes and iTunes in lyrics talks

by Erica Sadun (Apr 24th, 2007)

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 providers. A deal between iTunes and Gracenote is a ...

iTunes and Gracenote help expose classical plagiarism

by Michael Rose (Feb 19th, 2007)

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 of recordings in the 1990s, performing the ...

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