It feels like five minutes ago that media metadata pioneer Gracenote was guzzled by audience measurement tank Nielsen. Somehow, 3 years and 7 months have breezed by, in which time Gracenote has hardly changed while the marketplace around it has evolved dramatically. We are tempted to put this down to Gracenote being distracted by its lumbering parent company finalizing the intricacies of a controversial business separation, rather than any fat trimming of Gracenote by Nielsen. Faultline’s views since the takeover have tended to lean towards one of relief that the Gracenote brand lives on and therefore this must translate into full freedom to innovate and develop as it likes, away from any Nielsen-driven agenda. Of course, that could never be…