Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through dataMore than a decade ago, Gracenote received some cryptic advice from Apple to buy more servers. What followed -- the launch of iTunes and iPod -- blew up Gracenote's database to epic proportions and laid the groundwork for a metadata empire.
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