content partnersPortalPlayer's Music Service Framework is the industry's first standards-based compatible platform for designing personal media players that work with the majority of today's music and audio book services. By supporting all the major downloadable media services, PortalPlayer enables its customers to focus on bringing personal media players quickly to market -- eliminating their need to spend resources on supporting multiple formats and standards as they evolve. Downloadable media services that have been integrated in the PortalPlayer development platform include some of the following:
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PortalPlayer’s PC media manager works with Gracenote to automatically access information from the Internet, which displays album, artist and song names each time a CD or MP3 is played. GraceNote is the world’s largest online database of audio CD and MP3 information, boasting a database of nearly 620,000 album titles and more than 7.5 million tracks. Recognized as the most accurate music identification service on the Web, Gracenote has data on all kinds of music, even CDs with multiple pressings. Accessing Gracenote is free for your private use. By monitoring the Gracenote/CDDB server activity, Gracenote/CDDB also provides the public and media with a listing of the most popular albums played in computers during the previous 30 days. Updated daily, The Gracenote/CDDB Top 10 is the only worldwide digital music chart. Microsoft® Windows Media® Technologies—Technology License Allows for the support of the Windows Media Device Manager enabling ease of management and transfer of secure digital media in Microsoft® Windows® 98, 2000, and XP operating systems. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software. |
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