CDDB GETS A NEW PRESIDENT, PARTNERS WITH GIGABEAT

CDDB, maker of the music recognition protocol that most media players use, has partnered with Gigabeat in a pact that makes Gigabeat's computerized analysis of songs and filtering technology available to their network of applications. Huh?

CDDB stands for Compact Disc Database, if that helps you remember the name.

Users of CDDB-enabled media players—includingReal Networks, AOL, MusicMatch and Sony—will be able to sample suggestions of similar artists while they are listening. Gigabeat is a music search engine-type site that launched this month.

But that's not all. CDDB also snagged itself a new president, David "Wanna Get" Hyman, former Sr. VP Marketing at the MTVi Group. "David has proven he has the consumer marketing and sales acumen to convert what has become the single largest Internet music information pipeline in the world into a profitable gateway to the desktops of online music listeners," said Scott Jones, Chairman of CDDB. "Plus, we get 1/3 of a cent every time he spins around in his desk chair."