Mobile MusicID: Sony launches a music recognition service

Consumer electronics market giants Sony has launched a new service, which would help the consumers to find out the name of songs. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and Gracenote have collaborated to launch this new service called Mobile MusicID.

This service would enable the owners of Walkman phone to hold up their phones and identify music through Gracenote’s Global Media Database.

Craig Palmer, Gracenote CEO spoke about this newly launched service: “Sony revolutionized the world of music with the original Walkman, and now Sony Ericsson is positioned to do the same in the mobile world with their cutting edge handsets optimized for music.”

The two companies claim that this service combines advanced recognition technology with the world’s largest music information database for quick identification of music tracks. Their database includes more than 10 million song fingerprints, optimized for mobile devices.