The Apple rumor mill is getting its groove on these days as new details appear about a revamped streaming service slated to be launched in the coming months. 9to5Mac reported last… Read more »
A Spotify intern and Ph.D. student published a blog post laying out his work to improve Spotify’s recommendation algorithms using deep learning to analyze the acoustic properties of songs. He hopes… Read more »
Spotify wants to keep the Echo Nest open for third parties, but Rdio’s CEO says that he doesn’t want to share his company’s data with a competitor. Read more »
Increasingly, machine learning is the critical process making sense of big data for consumers. From music to cooking and office apps, machine learning is providing a twist on expert systems for… Read more »
Streaming music service Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest and its graph of musical data spanning more than 35 million songs and 2 million artists. It’s an easy way for Spotify… Read more »
The streaming music space is heating up thanks to API services that put incredible amounts of music data in the hands of developers who want to build their own streaming services… Read more »
A year after it launched as a skunkworks project inside music data company The Echo Nest, trendy social music site This Is My Jam is “looking at options” for going independent… Read more »
Apple seems to be negotiating directly with music rights holders so it could offer a Pandora-like streaming music radio service. Several pundits wonder why. Pandora runs nicely on iPhones and tablets,… Read more »
The Echo Nest raised $17 million to build out its international business and perhaps expand beyond powering music recommendations. The company uses natural language processing, acoustic analysis and machine learning to… Read more »
New social tools and sites are facilitating a democratization of discovery, where one-to- many recommendations are no longer the exclusive domain of professional media and traditional tastemakers. Read more »