Rovi Music
Rovi Music
Rovi Music
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<strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
Discover, manage and enjoy digital music across multiple platforms and devices<br />
With <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, you can:<br />
• Differentiate your product offerings<br />
• Increase customer satisfaction and<br />
usage<br />
• Drive revenue through cross- and<br />
up-selling<br />
• Optimize data for multiple platforms<br />
With <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, your customers can:<br />
• Gain insight into music they own and<br />
might like<br />
• Enjoy music more, with related imagery<br />
and audio<br />
• Search music and get recommendations<br />
• Discover, manage and enjoy music on<br />
different devices<br />
The way consumers enjoy music has changed dramatically. Today,<br />
consumers expect complete control – immediate access to the songs<br />
that match their mood, suggestions for songs that they might enjoy,<br />
and immediate information about the artist who is performing now.<br />
In addition, they want rich media – imagery, audio and video – and<br />
seamless integration with their digital lifestyles.<br />
With <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, consumers gain all of this and more. <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> covers more<br />
than 1.8 million album releases and 16 million tracks – from popular hits<br />
and cult favorites to minor works and classical masterpieces. And, it includes<br />
corresponding entertainment imagery.<br />
Beyond the Basics<br />
Unlike other music data offerings, <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> goes beyond basic<br />
descriptions to include editorial data, such as biographies, reviews, and<br />
related content. Extensive search and discovery capabilities as well as<br />
rich commerce support tools allow consumers to more easily discover,<br />
manage and enjoy digital music across multiple platforms and devices.<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> allows online stores, portals, social networking sites, service<br />
providers and mobile, PC and embedded application developers to<br />
differentiate their offerings, increase usage and drive consumption.<br />
And, with the <strong>Rovi</strong> ID – an industry-standard media identifier – you can<br />
create valuable synergy with a wide range of partners.<br />
Maintenance and Updates<br />
Subject to our rigorous quality standards, <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> is managed by<br />
an in-house editorial staff that proofreads and edits all copy. To help<br />
ensure accuracy in corrections, updates, and changes, data integrity<br />
reviews take place and data management processes are employed.<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> is built on an agile data management infrastructure<br />
designed to evolve with industry and customer requirements.<br />
Update schedule and delivery options for databases:<br />
• Monthly databases re-publication<br />
• Daily update schedule for databases:<br />
- Delta – containing changes for the previous day only<br />
- Cumulative – containing changes since the last monthly<br />
re-publication<br />
• Multiple delivery options available
Discover, manage and enjoy digital music across multiple platforms<br />
and devices<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong>’s Inform package comes standard with <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong> and includes all of the basic commercial and factual<br />
information about albums and artists. To further enhance your offering, you can license one or both of our modular<br />
packages – Discover and Experience.<br />
Inform<br />
Inform gives consumers the basics – commercial data<br />
and factual descriptions of albums and artists. This is<br />
our base package which comes standard with <strong>Rovi</strong><br />
<strong>Music</strong>.<br />
• Artist<br />
• Album title<br />
• Track title<br />
• Times<br />
• Formats and flags<br />
• Low-res front cover art<br />
• Product descriptions<br />
• Genres<br />
• Album/release-level product codes<br />
• Label<br />
• Release date<br />
• Classical composer<br />
• Credits<br />
Experience<br />
Experience engages the consumer and brings music<br />
enjoyment to the next level with rich graphics and audio<br />
and video content that are compatible with multiple<br />
platforms.<br />
• 30-second music samples<br />
• High-resolution front covers<br />
• Low- and high-resolution back covers<br />
• Artist images<br />
Discover<br />
With Discover, consumers gain extensive editorial<br />
data, detailed album-level descriptions and links to<br />
related music and other media for the full “6 degrees of<br />
information” experience.<br />
• Biographies<br />
• Profiles<br />
• Review excerpts<br />
• Artist to artist relational links<br />
• Ratings<br />
• Composers<br />
• Publisher<br />
• Copyright<br />
• ISRC<br />
• Album-level recommendations<br />
Discover<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Solutions by <strong>Rovi</strong><br />
In addition to <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, <strong>Rovi</strong>’s LASSO media<br />
recognition solution can be embedded into CE<br />
devices and PC applications. (Back-end catalog<br />
cleansing is an optional feature of LASSO.) <strong>Rovi</strong><br />
also offers Personal Media Manager, a skinnable<br />
PC application that includes media recognition and<br />
DLNA capabilities and allows consumers to clean,<br />
manage and stream multiple media types stored on<br />
disparate devices on a home network.<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong> Corporation<br />
Headquarters<br />
2830 De La Cruz Boulevard<br />
Santa Clara, CA 95050<br />
+1 408-562-8400<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong> Corporation<br />
1168 Oak Valley Drive<br />
Ann Arbor, MI 48108<br />
+1 734-887-5600<br />
<strong>Rovi</strong> Corporation<br />
304 Hudson Street, 8th Floor<br />
New York, NY 10013<br />
+1 800-892-4569<br />
To learn about <strong>Rovi</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, visit<br />
rovicorp.com.<br />
Copyright © 2010 <strong>Rovi</strong> Corporation. All rights reserved. <strong>Rovi</strong> is a trademark of <strong>Rovi</strong> Corporation.
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