Announced January 8, 2010, music licensing and delivery provider Omnifone will integrate Gracenote's music recognition and recommendation technology with its own suite of MusicStation APIs to provide cloud-based digital music services across over thirty territories in 2010.
Omnifone now provides digital music services with Gracenote technology in twenty countries across the world, and will be live in over thirty markets in 2010 including the U.S.
Omnifone provides CE vendors wishing to deliver global state-of-the-art digital music services a sophisticated suite of MusicStation APIs enabling partners to rapidly create digital music services based on Omnifone's award winning unlimited music service, on almost any device type.
Omnifone's suite of APIs facilitate increased development flexibility and reduced time to market for partners, helping deliver revolutionary unlimited music streaming and download services to consumers globally.
MusicStation APIs provided to partners include:
Functions include unlimited music streaming and downloads capabilities, as well as providing music discovery functionality, catalog management, multiple file formats and delivery options, encryption support for multiple DRMs including OMA, WDRM, Marlin, and Omnifone's proprietary label approved OmniPlay, as well as state of the art real time reporting functions.