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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

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Post by JonnieCache »

antocv wrote: post #8

Spotify 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.

Why do you think this? Because of the insultingly tiny fees they pay out?

Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine

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Post by mpnordland »

transpy wrote: post #2

This 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.

If so, then the radio won't really improve. I prefer Pandora, but I can't get that now in my country.

Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine

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Post by hadem »

darylfritz wrote: post #13

This frightens me. I'm a big Rdio fan and they use Echo Nest as their backend. Has Spotify just found a way to secretly shut them down?

This was my very first thought as well. I worry they will close it as well. Perhaps they will charge for to use the service in the future?

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Post by goatforce5 »

darylfritz wrote: post #13

This frightens me. I'm a big Rdio fan and they use Echo Nest as their backend. Has Spotify just found a way to secretly shut them down?

Rdio's recently launched Stations feature (complete with "Powered by echonest" logo in the corner) is brilliant. It'll be a real shame if it goes away.

Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine

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Post by whopa »

anonymoushn wrote: post #9
untog wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Rdio also uses The Echo Nest for their radio feature, and it's great. I always chalked up Spotify's radio sucking vs. Rdio's radio being so good due to Spotify having shitty integration with The Echo Nest... maybe that will change. One thing that always struck me about Spotify is that they never seemed to put a priority on anything around actual music discovery.

Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine

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Post by rot13 »

untog wrote: post #7
transpy wrote: post #2

This 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.

That may have been the case at one point, but Spotify has used their own recommendation system for a while.

http://www.quora.com/Spotify/Pandora-radio-is-built-on-their...

Re: Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine

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Post by aaronmoodie »

darylfritz wrote: post #13

This frightens me. I'm a big Rdio fan and they use Echo Nest as their backend. Has Spotify just found a way to secretly shut them down?

Or any other new music startup for that matter. I agree, this is a little disconcerting.
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