can anyone tell me what gracenote is?
is it a useful feature?

 

Also curious. It's in my Infiniti G37 sedan as well, and anytime I put in a CD it says "checking gracenote." Always wondered what the hell that meant...

 

Googling it came up with.............

Gracenote has the largest database of music and video metadata, powering the world's hottest entertainment products, apps and services.

http://www.gracenote.com/

 

Yeah, when you put a CD into the player, it'll automatically recognize all the track names and stuff. Probably will also display cover art for you, too.

 

Cool! let me see if I can contain my overwhelming excitement for this feature..

 

Might help with songs that come on the radio and you don't know who sings it but this software tells you who it is ? Dunno.

 

All I can tell is that it's a piece of S. I turned it off, and it still keeps on providing me the album cover of my MP3s.

 

Gracenote is simply a recognition software that does and doesn't work for album artwork

 

A mystery piece of software that shows artist name, song and album artwork. Told me I needed to update on a 4 week old IS 350. Dealer didn't even know what it was and gave the deer in the headlights look when I asked. It would appear my Canadian vehicle has only a partial firmware flash. trying for weather and traffic updates. Anyone know of a U.S. dealer around Buffalo who can do this?

 

Song names are stored on the CD/MP3 itself. Gracenote is simply used for looking up album art - basically just a DB.

 

I noticed the same problems with Gracenote using the USB. All of my music has embedded artwork in small 400x400 dpi size. I have the Gracenote turned off in my IS, yet much of the music on my USB still displays the Gracenote art (usually a photo of the performer) and not the art I embedded. Some tracks do display my embedded art, and still others dislplay no art at all!

I don't know if the problem is with the car or Gracenote, but I do know that the 3IS audio system is a complete disaster in general.

 

That would be perfect. I really want traffic info. One of the thing I miss from my BMW

 

will our players play MP4?