13 Gracenote® CD Information
The Gracenote® music recognition service provides the set with CD track information (including
album, artist, genre, track information) from its built-in database. It allows the recorded CD tracks
to be properly categorized (for example, under Artists, Albums, Genres or All tracks) and be
merged with the existing tracks in the hard disk.
13.1 Gracenote® music recognition database
A 800 MB CD database (contains 800,000 most popular CDs) is embedded in every for quick
look-up on track information.An update file that contains newly released CDs is available quarterly
on www.club.philips.com for download.
13.1.1 Update Gracenote® music recognition database
Use your PC to register your product on www.club.philips.com and go to ‘Show Upgrades &
Support’ page to download Gracenote® Music recognition database update. Note that the updates
are posted quarterly and new updates are independent from old updates,i.e.a new update can be
installed, even without the previous update.
After storing the file on your PC, you can either burn a CD with the update file using your favorite
CD burning software and drop the CD into for automatic update, or you can use the
Gracenote® update option of WADM if you have connected your PC to .
13.2 Gracenote® Internet Queries
If the CD track information of your new CD disc cannot be displayed on the WACS7500, the
quickest and surest solution is to ensure you have followed the steps in 11.6 Connect to
Internet and follow 13.2.1 Look up track information.
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