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Gracenote Digital Media Technology to Ship with All-New 2007 Chrysler Sebring.


LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Gracenote[R], a global leader in technology and services that are an integral part of the digital media economy, today announced the all-new 2007 Chrysler Sebring The Chrysler Sebring is a line of mid-size cars sold by Chrysler LLC. There have been three entirely different vehicles with this name:
  • Chrysler Sebring (coupe) (1995-2005)
  • Chrysler Sebring (convertible) (1996-present)
  • Chrysler Sebring (sedan) (2001-present)
 will include the Gracenote MusicID[TM] CD database. Gracenote was the first to provide an embedded CD recognition solution for the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide.  and has since shipped millions of units into the marketplace. The Chrysler Sebring represents the first North American North American

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 auto maker to ship Gracenote's MusicID database as a part of its optional MyGIG[TM] multimedia infotainment system.

The 2007 Chrysler Sebring features MyGIG, a cutting-edge information, entertainment and safety navigation audio system that raises the bar on in-vehicle communications. MyGIG includes Gracenote's MusicID solution, providing Chrysler Sebring drivers with CD information including the artist, track and album playing. Gracenote's technology is enabling advances in digital media car audio systems, providing important new functions for instantly accessing, managing and storing an entire library of music in the car.

The MyGIG best-in-class, next-generation navigation radio features a 6.5-inch Thin Film Transistor (TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film.

TFT - Thin Film transistor
) Display with a touch-screen panel. The MyGIG system follows voice-activated commands and includes many new features for music, sound, movies and personalized picture displays. Reinforcing Chrysler Group's leadership in bringing technology to the masses, MyGIG will be available first in mainstream, mid-priced vehicles, including Dodge Nitro and Jeep[R] Wrangler wran·gler  
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, in addition to Chrysler Sebring.

"Gracenote is excited to have the Chrysler Group be the first North American auto maker to include our MusicID system in a popular new automobile," said Jim Hollingsworth, vice president of sales and marketing at Gracenote. "Chrysler Group is providing truly innovative in-car entertainment systems and the new MyGIG multimedia infotainment system featuring Gracenote raises the bar even higher for must-have digital entertainment options."

Gracenote MusicID provides a complete solution to manage and enjoy music collections in the car, living room, office and on the mobile phone. When drivers insert a CD into the MyGIG system, Gracenote MusicID will enable it to identify songs so the user can view the song, album and artist information, rather than just "Disc 1, Track 1." MusicID can identify music by song, album, artist and genre with songs organized into fully functional music libraries, giving users a better way to manage their collections.

Gracenote is working with almost every major auto maker and automotive supplier in the industry, providing its MusicID and other products to the world's leading automotive companies, including DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Honda, Lexus, Nissan, Toyota and others. To date, Gracenote's technology has been included in millions of advanced automotive entertainment units in Japan, with distribution now expanding to North America and Europe.

Gracenote at CES

Gracenote will demonstrate its complete line of products and services at CES in Las Vegas January 8-11, 2007, LVCC LVCC Las Vegas Convention Center
LVCC Las Vegas Country Club
LVCC Liverpool Victoria County Championship (England, cricket)
LVCC Lakewood Village Community Church
LVCC Lucas Valley Community Church (San Rafael, CA) 
 South Hall 4 Booth 31646. The new Classical Music Initiative, Gracenote Discover music recommendation engine, and Lyrics program will be shown for the first time at CES 2007. The media is welcome to join Gracenote executives for product demonstrations during its cocktail hours from 5:00-6:00 p.m. at the booth each day of the show.

About Gracenote

Gracenote is a global leader in embedded technology, enriched content, and data services for digital entertainment solutions within the Internet, consumer electronics, mobile, and automotive markets. Formerly known as 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], Gracenote delivers a substantially improved consumer experience in digital media devices and applications, plus media monitoring and other data services to the recording industry, making it an integral part of the digital media economy. Gracenote powers leading services including Apple iTunes, Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! Music Jukebox is a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the MusicMatch Jukebox, related to the fact that MusicMatch, which developed the Jukebox, was purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. , AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  Winamp; home and automotive products from Alpine, Panasonic, Philips and Sony; and mobile music applications from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, KDDI (Japan), KTF KTF Korea Telecom Freetel
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KTF Kauai Test Facility (Sandia National Laboratories, US)
KTF Kemisk-Tekniska Leverantörförbundet (Swedish union of chemical technical suppliers) 
 (Korea), Musiwave (Europe), and others. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote has offices in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Tokyo, Berlin and Seoul. For more information about Gracenote, please refer to www.gracenote.com/corporate/.

Gracenote, CDDB and MusicID are registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
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