Mayhem and Chaos sez, "MusicIP, the partner of MusicBrainz drastically reduced its pricing on its acoustic fingerprinting service. The service is now FREE up to 5M requests per month, which is certainly a big deal. This is probably the first serious offensive launched against GraceNote, which has been trying (without much success) to establish themselves as a player in this field. By dropping the prices MusicIP essentially wipes out the lower end market for GraceNote and reduces their chances for gaining any sort of foothold in this market."
The service includes a database of 26 million fingerprinted audio tracks. The public domain track metadata from MusicBrainz returned by MusicDNS can be used freely for any applications by developers, organizations or enterprises.
"Music technology developers and organizations have been without an affordable, reliable digital music content identification solution for too long," said MusicIP CEO Dr. Matthew Dunn. "To enable profitable new music business models, the industry needs widely-adopted digital fundamentals like content identification services."
(Thanks Mayhem and Chaos!)
(Disclosure, I am a proud Director of the Metabrainz foundation, a charity that oversees MusicBrainz)
