CDDB, World's Largest Online CD Music Database, Debuts New Web Site.BERKELEY, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 27, 1999-- A newly designed, more user-friendly Web site for CDDB (CD DataBase) An online music database service from Gracenote, Emeryville, CA (www.gracenote.com). Developed in the mid-1990s by Ti Kan and Steve Sherf and officially known as MusicID, the CDDB is widely used to find album and song titles for the tracks on a CD. (TM) is now online, it was announced Tuesday by Ann E. Greenberg, CDDB senior vice president, marketing & business development. CDDB, grassroots Internet darling, provides free information on more than 360,000 CDs, making it the world's largest online CD music database. User-built and supported, www.CDDB.com is visited millions of times monthly by consumers who flock flock 1. a group of one species of animal or bird which eats or travels or is kept together, e.g. flock of sheep, of wild geese. 2. wool or cotton particles or debris used as stuffing or packing. to the site to find information on rare and hard-to-find CDs, as well as their favorite standbys. "The new Web site reflects the advanced level of technology that goes into the site and the dynamics of the CDDB database," said Greenberg. "We've greatly enhanced our commercial appeal to advertisers while remaining loyal to music fans. Access to the CDDB service remains 100-percent free to software developers and consumers." In addition to the CDDB Web site, CDDB provides a totally unique Disc Recognition Service (DRS DRS Drives (street suffix) DRS Dispute Resolution Service DRS Doctorandus DRS Department of Rehabilitative Services DRS Direct Registration System (securities) DRS Department of Rehabilitation Services ) that identifies audio CDs in the consumer's CD-ROM drive A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. CD-ROM drives generally also play audio CD discs by sending analog sound to the sound card via a 4-pin cable. For specifications of 10x, 20x, etc. drives, see CD-ROM drives. See CD-ROM, CD-ROM changer, CD-ROM server and CD-ROM audio cable. , automatically providing related artist, album and song information to music player applications. Consumers can download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. the largest selection of CDDB-enabled music players from www.CDDB.com. Prior to CDDB, when a user played an audio CD in their computer they had to manually input all album information themselves in order to properly identify and catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. their CDs. CDDB's DRS supports millions of consumers who look up information at the rate of more than 6 million albums per month. "CDDB is the deepest catalog of audio CD information on the Internet and our unique Disc Recognition Service is enjoyed by millions of users around the world," said Jim Kinney, general manager. "We are working hard to continue to be the world's best resource for audio CD information and to provide an excellent resource to music fans, which is fun, easy to use and provides great value." CDDB is recognized as the No. 1 source of music CD information on the Internet and the company's Disc Recognition Service is widely regarded as the best service of its kind in the world. CDDB Inc. is an Internet enterprise of Escient Inc. (www.escient.com), a recognized pioneer and leader in developing convergence technologies that combine consumer electronics, computing computing - computer power and the Internet, in powerful yet simple ways. |
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