Microsoft uses Sony technology in Xbox Music

Computer store news: Microsoft recently announced that they will cooperate with Sony to improve its Xbox Music. The streaming music service was launched with Windows 8 last October, but it will be from now It uses Sony's Gracenote technology to drive its music recognition service.

Xbox Music users can now store a song from CD, iTunes or MP3 in Windows 8, Xbox Music will Automatically recognize the music and upload its tags to the cloud, each of the user's devices can be played online.

Xbox Music supports music recognition shortly after the release. However, the addition of Sony Gracenote will improve this. To identify the efficiency of the process, users can also manually add information such as music album covers. Sony Gracenote has a database of various music features, very similar to the popular app Shazam.

For Microsoft, direct use of competition The technology of the opponent is very rare. However, although Gracenote is a Sony company, it has its own independent operating system. Now Xbox Music has not supported PlayStation 4, it has already Become a cross-platform streaming music service. There are apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS, Andriod and Microsoft's own Xbox game console.