Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
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Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#2This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to acquire it.
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#3Not surprising at all. Echo Nest does a great job solving a not-easy problem. Hope they remain accessible to the public afterwards.
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#4One of the technical people at Echo Nest writes some pretty interesting posts about music and how they analyze it. He mentions the acquisition today:
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#5The Echo Nest blog announcement:
http://blog.echonest.com/post/78749300941/the-echo-nest-join...
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#6There's a separate thread discussing the actual Echo Nest post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353874
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#7This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to acquire it.
Correct - IIRC their entire Radio feature is powered by The Echo Nest.
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#8Spotify and similar disservices mean death to a culture of music.
Like Carthage, it is my opinion that Spotify and the music /industry/ founded on copy-theft must be burned down.
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#9This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to acquire it.
Correct - IIRC their entire Radio feature is powered by The Echo Nest.
I'm sad to hear this, since the Radio feature is pretty bad. I guess that means losing The Echo Nest is no big deal, though.
Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
#10Spotify and similar disservices mean death to a culture of music. Like Carthage, it is my opinion that Spotify and the music /industry/ founded on copy-theft must be burned down.
Spotify and similar disservices mean death to a culture of music.
Care to expand on what you mean by that? I'll agree with you that the music industry is deeply messed up, but it has been for a very long time. If anything services like Spotify will allow artists to abandon parasitic record labels and release material by themselves.