April 12th, 2012

The Echo Nest Grabs More Data: Partners With Concert Listing Provider JamBase & SongMeanings

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Music intelligence startup Echo Nest, which you might know better as the company powering Spotify Radio and Vevo’s recommendations, is announcing two new partnerships today which will give developers access to more data to build their apps with. The company is teaming up with JamBase, which provides concerts listings and tour schedules, and SongMeanings, which you’ve surely come across while… → Read More

November 11th, 2011

What Should You Drink While Listening To Your Favorite Music? Ask Drinkify.

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When it comes to music and drinking, these activities are best enjoyed in the company of others — hopefully friends. But, when combining music and libations, it’s not always easy to know just what kind of drink should be sipped while listening to your favorite Barry White tunes. Courvoisier? Personally, I prefer a Fresca for music of every single stripe, but people want choice, and they want to… → Read More

November 3rd, 2011

EMI Presses Play On Digital Innovation; Opens Its Catalog To App Developers

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The music industry industry has taken some questionable stances on digital technology over the years. To call it resistant to change probably wouldn’t be stepping too far out of line. That’s why, as music fans, we love to hear about cases in which the music industry demonstrates forward thinking and proactively constructs policy that takes new technologies and distribution media into account. → Read More

June 23rd, 2011

The Echo Nest Hatches Echoprint, A Free Open Source Music Fingerprinting Service

The Echo Nest, a music intelligence startup whose technology that powers many music apps from media companies or independent developers, this morning announced the release of an open-source music identification service dubbed Echoprint.

The Echo Nest teamed up with 7digital, a London-based digital media delivery company, and MusizBrainz, to launch with a catalog of 13 million songs, an amount it… → Read More