Las Vegas - MusicIP, the developer of a global search engine for music, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week the launch of a new, free pricing structure for MusicDNS, its on-demand service that can identify music tracks and deliver accompanying metadata.

The service includes a database of 26 million fingerprinted audio tracks. The public domain track metadata from MusicBrainz returned by MusicDNS can be used freely for any applications by developers, organizations or enterprises.

"Music technology developers and organizations have been without an affordable, reliable digital music content identification solution for too long," said MusicIP CEO Dr. Matthew Dunn. "To enable profitable new music business models, the industry needs widely-adopted digital fundamentals like content identification services."

MusicIP's free service joins a market that includes the commercially available offering from Gracenote, whose CDDB music identification database is the standard used by most media players, including iTunes. Other applications include All Media Guide's commercially available AMG LASSO, and the open-source freedb.

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