arsclist Gracenote and other "automatic recognition" DBs

[Joel Bresler <joel.br@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear friends:

Both the Windows Media Player and Real One Player offer automatic 
recognition of the audio CDs placed in a computer's CD/DVD ROM drive. I 
assumed that they both used the Gracenote database, but today WMP 
recognized a CD that RealOne did not. Does anyone know anything about who 
WMP is using? If it's not Gracenote, who are they using or have they rolled 
their own? If Gracenote, why would one service recognize it, but not the 
other?

Any insights welcome.

Joel


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