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Topic: If you're on Gracenote, have you "Arrived"? |
Bill Llewellyn
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San Jose, CA
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Posted 5 Aug 2006 5:31 am |
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Ever wonder what the litmus test is for being 'somebody' in the music world? Maybe it's whether or not your own CD releases appear on the media database Gracenote (formerly CDDB).  My iTunes software is set up to automatically call up Gracenote whenever I pop a CD into my Mac and bring up the title and names of all the tracks (lots of other music software applications will do the same, like Jukebox). That is if the info has been entered into the immense music database at Gracenote. I always assumed that you needed to have some significant commercial releases to get into that database, but recently I popped some steeler CDs in my Mac and low-and-behold the data popped right up! That includes CDs by Jim Cohen, Herb Steiner, Tommy White, Lloyd Green, and even backup tracks from Mike Headrick, Harry Hess, and Band In The Pocket. Cool! (That made importing them into my iTunes library a lot easier.)
So I guess the moral of the story is that if you've released your own CD and it gets listed on Gracenote, you're a somebody! (If not, keep trying, I guess....)
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Bill, steelin' since '99 | Steel page | MSA U12 | My music | Steelers' birthdays | Over 50?
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 5 Aug 2006 6:35 am
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My Direbird Suite CD is there
My West Side Story CD is not 
Does this mean I'm only half of a somebody?
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Warning: I have a telecaster and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Shane Reilly
From:
Melbourne, Australia
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Posted 5 Aug 2006 7:56 am
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Direbird? That would be the hits of Dire Straits as interpreted by Charlie Parker performed by Mike Perlowin on pedal steel guitar.Direbird suite?  |
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David Tunnell
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Marshfield, Missouri, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2006 8:09 am
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I may be wrong, but I think that the way some CDs get into Gracenote is that some other person has already ripped the CD into Itunes and typed in the information. I know that, when I was filling up my 60 GB Ipod (which is full now, with 20,049 songs) from my CD collection, I had to type in the information on a great many of the more obscure albums, including a lot of steel guitar stuff like Lloyd Green and Herb Steiner. So, to answer your question, the album being in Gracenote means that somebody has taken the trouble to enter it in, so maybe that means the artist has "arrived". I would say that Lloyd Green and Herb Steiner have "arrived" even if I'd never heard of Gracenote.
Incidentally, lest anybody reading this think there is anything illegal about having an Ipod with so many songs, please know that nearly all the songs on it came off of CDs that I bought and paid for, and which I still have on shelves covering two walls. The rest were bought and paid for by downloading them from Itunes. It is not illegal to make a copy of something for your personal use. And that is what an Ipod is, a copy of 2000+ CDs that fits in the palm of your hand and weighs next to nothing. Ipods and other brands of MP3 players are the handiest gadget I've ever seen for a music hound like me. I have my truck set up where I can plug it directly into the stereo, and have anything I want to listen to at my immediate disposal all the time. I would highly recommend one, if you're thinking about getting one.
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Very truly yours,
David T. Tunnell
Alesis QS8; Peavey KB/A 300; Peavey KB5; BMI U-12; Session 500
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 6 Aug 2006 3:11 am
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Direbird Suite.
Is that Stravinsky orchestrating for
The Gratefulk dead??
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 6 Aug 2006 3:50 am
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I've GOT to start wearing my glasses when i post.
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Warning: I have a telecaster and I'm not afraid to use it.
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