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brianwhitman

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About brianwhitman

co-founder of The Echo Nest, now @ Spotify. write me at brian@echonest.com

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    Comment #9171905

    song/identify supported both ENMFP and Echoprint, and AFAIK the Echoprint matching path was exactly the same as is published on Github. I know at some point we did adapt the Solr e…

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    Comment #8096957

    I like this concept, but you need some sort of automated filtering. My first track (because hypem liked it) is a cat purring. Plug but it's a useful one: run the tracks through the…

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    Comment #7071082

    psytrance is there, as "psychedelic trance" we're adding j-core now, thanks for the suggestion! sxsw is why this is special, we will be adding and changing these over time. It's cl…

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    Comment #7070556

    also, code examples: http://musicmachinery.com/2014/01/16/new-genre-apis/

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    Comment #7070412

    These genres come from people talking about music using whatever organic / natural words they use to describe music. We've done the work to map those into single-term "genres," as …

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    Comment #7070399

    http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/genre/list?api_key=YOUR...

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    Comment #6849931

    this is going to be a great event, I'm speaking at it too, presenting my old "A Singular Christmas" from 2004 (nee Eigenradio) http://notes.variogr.am/post/262976984/a-singular-chr…

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    Comment #4844822

    EN (which powers the Rdio create station feature that rolled out recently) has similarity data and popularity data for songs & artists natively. Popularity of a single song: http:/…

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    Comment #4712205

    Analyze your own, it'll be much better when you're doing synchronous stuff like this. Our canonical audio is likely very different in bitrate or time to start.

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    Comment #4709676

    Yes: you can use Echo Nest Remix in python or do what paul did and pre-load the analysis and do the playback via webaudio. Remix takes care of the chopping at the right bits for yo…

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    Comment #4704210

    yeah, the new john allison ones put the old logo ones to shame, i hate to see the old style still in the wild.

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    Comment #4704068

    dear dude in the middle wearing the echo nest t-shirt -- WHO ARE YOU, we'll send you a later edition

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    Comment #4678520

    hah -- any one of you would do the same faced with an overzealous auto-linker js on IRCCloud, a discussion there about the README.md it points to and access to a corporate credit c…

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    Comment #4347234

    I really don't think Google built Apple's Mail.app client. Do you have any link or information about this?

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    Comment #4318742

    The article says "He quoted an NBC spokesman as saying: "Our social media department was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it." I can …

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    Comment #4309277

    She has updated her comments with a link to the actual email from Apple: http://hollylisle.com/apple-made-its-decision-my-turn/commen... My reading of this is a complete miscommuni…

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    Comment #4306464

    Don't see any emails about the content block that she is referring to this post. I see emails about previous issues of her having links to Amazon in her ebooks. I am very curious a…