Metadata solution providers

It is important to ensure digital radio looks and sounds good in the car

Metadata enables visual information, both text and graphics, to be displayed on the dashboard when a specific station is playing for example station name and logo, presenter, song title and album artwork.

WorldDAB members offer solutions that enable the use of metadata via DAB and hybrid to power radio's visual presence in the car - here is who can help:

Gracenote, a Nielsen company

Gracenote is the content solutions business unit of Nielsen providing entertainment metadata, content IDs and related offerings to the world's leading creators, distributors, platforms, connected device manufacturers and automakers. Gracenote technology enables advanced content navigation and discovery capabilities helping consumers easily connect to the radio stations, music, podcasts, movies, TV shows and sports they love in the car, at home or on mobile.

Radioplayer

Radioplayer is the only non-profit, broadcaster-backed provider of metadata to automotive companies, acting strategically on behalf of the radio industry to build world class radio experiences. Radioplayer provides metadata to power a great hybrid radio experience; Station name and high-res logos, FM and DAB bearer IDs, official streams, programme information, song title and artist info and data to improve the voice experience.

Xperi

For DAB/DAB+ stations Xperi's division All in Media offers the RAPID platform which supports the formatting and delivery of DLS, Slideshow and SPI Services. For hybrid radio, DTS Connected Radio provides a global single source of highly curated, direct-from-broadcaster metadata for rapid integration with OEMs. And Xperi's TiVo Music Metadata catalog is the world-leading source of fully licensed, high-quality music metadata and images.