TrackID was a mobile music and audio search engine for Sony Ericsson (now

Sony Mobile Sony Mobile Communications Inc., originally Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, was a Multinational corporation, multinational consumer electronics and telecommunications company, best known for its Mobile phones, mobile phone products. The ...

) feature phones, Android devices and some Sony television sets. TrackID was developed by

and allowed users to identify music using

Gracenote Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video, and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote ...

's music database. Gracenote was acquired by

Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...

in 2008. The acquisition was completed on June 2, 2008. The revised Android application was released in March 2015. The service has been present on select Sony Ericsson handsets since around 2005. TrackID was discontinued by Sony Mobile on 15 September 2017 and Sony recommended that users install Shazam to 'continue discovering music'.

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{{reflist Android (operating system) software Music search engines