On September 3, 2014, Gracenote acquired Baseline, a Los-Angeles based provider of film and TV data and information. On July 9, 2014, Tribune Media Company purchased What's-ON, a provider of TV data and advanced search offerings covering India and the Middle East for $27 million. On June 12, 2014, Tribune Media Services merged with Gracenote to form one company under the Gracenote name.
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The acquisition closed in February 2014: Gracenote was aligned with the Tribune Media Services division which focused on TV and Movie metadata and IDs. On December 23, 2013, Sony announced it would sell Gracenote to Tribune Media for $170 million. On SeptemGracenote received its one-billionth piece of data, with a submission about the Compact Disc release of Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. The acquisition was completed on June 2, 2008. On April 22, 2008, Sony announced that it would acquire Gracenote for $260 million.
This led to a licensing controversy when Gracenote became commercialized. Its original database was created from and continues to receive voluntary contributions from users. A TOC, or Table of Contents, is a list of offsets corresponding to the start of each track on a CD. Because CDs do not contain any digitally-encoded information about their contents, Kan and Scherf devised a technology that identifies and looks up CDs based on TOC information stored at the beginning of each disc. xmcd and CDDB were created by Ti Kan and Steve Scherf.
Gracenote began in 1993 as an open-source project involving a CD player program named xmcd and an associated database named CDDB.