{"id":642743,"date":"2013-02-15T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=611105"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:01:33","slug":"gracenote-opens-up-its-apis-and-sdks-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642743","title":{"rendered":"Gracenote opens up its APIs and SDKs for developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gracenote officially unveiled its developer program<\/a> at Music Hack Day San Francisco, giving developers access to a number of APIs and SDKs as well as its mobile client to jump-start the development of new music apps.<\/p>\n

Developers can make use of these resources to identify music through audio fingerprinting, access additional metadata about music and even retrieve the cover art for CDs. Gracenote\u2019s music database contains information about a total of 130 million songs, which are classified by more than 2,000 musical genres.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company has a history of supporting innovation,\u201d Gracenote President Stephen White said during a phone interview Thursday. Gracenote\u2019s original CD database used to offer developers free access for non-commercial applications, but White said that Gracenote moved away from some of these principles when the company got acquired by Sony. Now Gracenote wants to reclaim its place in the music tech developer ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Gracenote\u2019s developer program soft launched at the Stockholm Music Hack Day last month, and 300 developers have already signed up to make use of the company\u2019s resources. One of them is an iOS app called Stream That Song<\/a> that uses Gracenote\u2019s music recognition to identify a song that\u2019s playing in the background (think Shazam) and then adds it to a user\u2019s Spotify or Deezer library.<\/p>\n

Resources of the program are limited to non-commercial app development. White argued that this gives developers a chance to start working on their app and apply for a commercial license once it\u2019s proven to be successful. \u201cThere\u2019s no need to strike licenses before you start working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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