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Rich Music Data

understanding music content and consumersThe Echo Nest Solution

12 years of R&D at MIT, Columbia and Berkeley

Our API is our product

Our API

Our API is our product. Everything a customer can do so can you.

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Artist API

•Search

•Similar

•Familiarity

•Hottttnesss

•Bios

•Blogs

•Terms

•News

•Reviews

•Images

•Video

•Location

•Suggest

•Extract

2 million artists

for a in artist.similar(names=['lady gaga']): print a.name

SIMILAR ARTISTS IN 2 LINES OF CODE

MadonnaChristina AguileraBritney SpearsKylie MinogueKaty PerryScissor SistersRihannaBeyoncéAshley TisdaleLivvi FrancLa RouxParis HiltonShe Wants RevengeThe Pussycat DollsMarina and The Diamonds

adele = artist.Artist('Adele')for news in adele.news: print news['date_posted'], news['name']

Top recent news stories for Adele

2012-02-06T17:37:00 Grammys: Who Should Win the Major Categories2012-02-06T00:00:00 Noel Gallagher: Adele's Music Career Won't Last2012-02-06T00:00:00 Noel Gallagher Admits He Feels Sorry For Adele2012-02-06T00:00:00 Dave Grohl's Grammy pride2012-02-06T00:00:00 British Artists Dominate 2011 Market: Adele, Jessie J2012-02-06T00:00:00 Adele called 'too fat'

Song API•Search

•Similar Songs

•Tempo

•Key & Mode

•Time Signature

•Beats

•Downbeats

•Segments

•Timbre

•Pitch

•Loudness

•Energy

•Danceability

•Speechiness

30 million songs

Track Analysis and Remix Summary

It turns music into silly putty

Song I/O•Upload to analyze tracks•Render audio and video

Song search•Search for songs

Song analysis•Tempo, Key, Mode, Time

SignatureSong Hierarchy

•Section, Bars, Beats, TatumsSegments

•Timbre, Pitch, Loudness

Manipulations•Rearranging, blending, time

stretching, pitch shifting, video, looping,

•fade-ins, fade-outs, crossfades, find similar, sorting

segments

auditory spectrogram

pitch features

timbre features

Song API example

Find the loudest songs by thrash artists

song/search?sort=loudness-desc&description=thrash

Find indie songs for jogging

song/search?min_tempo=120&style=indie&max_tempo=125

Find hottest songs by Lady Gaga

song/search?sort=hotttnesss-desc&artist=lady+gaga

results = song.search(artist='Michael Jackson', title='billie jean')if len(results) > 0: print 'tempo', results[0].audio_summary['tempo'] print 'dance', results[0].audio_summary['danceability'] print 'energy', results[0].audio_summary['energy']

Audio properties in a few lines of code

tempo 117.128dance 0.97energy 0.47

More APIs!

•Taste Profiles for personalization

•Advanced Playlisting

•Song identification

Plus, client libraries for popular platforms: Python Java Ruby iOS Android etc

for song in playlist.static(type='artist-radio', artist='weezer'): print song.title, 'by', song.artist_name

ARTIST RADIO IN 2 LINES OF CODE

Island In The Sun by Weezer1979 by The Smashing PumpkinsWalk by Foo FightersDance, Dance by Fall Out BoyBlast Off! by Rivers CuomoOh Me, Oh My by Nerf HerderBirdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be GiantsSmells Like Teen Spirit by NirvanaAlison by Elvis CostelloGirl, You'll Be a Woman Soon by Urge OverkillStacy's Mom by Fountains of WayneThe Middle by Jimmy Eat WorldWorry A Lot by The Like Young1985 by Bowling for SoupDo You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips

Our playlist engine powers the listening experience for millions of music listeners

The Playlist API

•Fine grained control over:

•artist selection, variety

•hotttness, familiarity, location

•song selection

•Any musical attributes (e.g. tempo range, key)

•song ordering

•Artist or song attributes (e.g. loudness)

Some examples

•Play tracks by Weezer and Radiohead

playlist/static?&artist=weezer&artist=radiohead&results=20&type=artist

•Weezer artist radio

playlist/static?&artist=weezer&artist=radiohead&type=artist-radio

•Playlist of music by pop divas ordered by tempo

playlist/static?&description=pop&description=diva&type=artist-description&artist_min_familiarity=.9&sort=tempo-asc

Audio Fingerprinter

•Identify songs based upon audio

•Fingerprinter executables and libraries for Windows, Mac and Linux

•Song ID typically in less than a second per song

•Currently in beta

•More info at:

http://groups.google.com/group/enmfp

Easy Integration• 7Digital

• Spotify

• Rhapsody

• Lyricfind

• Seatwave

• Rdio

• Free Music Archive

• Facebook

• MusicBrainz

• Deezer

• Discogs

• EMI

• Jambase

• MusixMatch

• SongMeanings

• Twitter

• Songkick

Open EMI•Dozens of artist

sandboxes

•Audio

•Video

•Images

•More ...

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Content Available

Audio (inc metadata)

Video Imagery Promo Tools Web Tools

2,000 tracks

Over 10,000 tracks

+ artwork

70 tracks

41 albums+ artwork

135(coming soon)

86 Image assets 27 Photosessions 26

Web bannersGamesScreensavers

71 albums+ artwork

180(coming soon)

26 Image assets 8 Photosessions 35 Web banners

Games

24 albums+ artwork

32(coming soon)

Logos 2 Photosessions 16

11 albums+ artwork

49(coming soon)

Logos 4 Photosessions 9

13 albums+ artwork

31(coming soon)

Logos Photosession 12

14 albums+ artwork

27(coming soon)

Logos 5 Photosessions 11

10 albums+ artwork

23(coming soon)

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Selection

Get ready for Christmas!Constrain song searches and playlists to songs

that match a given ‘song type’

Example: Justin Bieber Christmas Radio

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/playlist/static?api_key=key&artist=justin+bieber&format=json&results=20&type=artist-radio&song_type=christmas

Demo: http://static.echonest.com/demo/xmas.html

Some cool things people have built with The Echo Nest API

The Music Maze

Map of Music Styles

Roadtrip Mixtape

Bipolar Radio - one button steeringPlaylist demos

Boil the frog - path finding through the artist spacePlaylist demos

#SXMusicData

http://labs.echonest.com/click/

Stewart Copeland

#SXMusicData

The Machine

MIDEM Music Machine

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Bangarang Boomerang

http://static.echonest.com/BohemianRhapsichord/index.html

http://static.echonest.com/BohemianRhapsichord/index.html

infinitejuke.com

The Infinite Jukebox

Echo Nest Remix

Turns music into silly putty

chop sound into:Sections

Bars

Beats

Segments

And then programmatically manipulate all of

the bits and pieces

With remix you can

Tatums

slicing and dicingCreate a remix from beat one of

every bar

bars = audiofile.analysis.bars collect = [] for bar in bars: collect.append(bar.children()[0]) out = audio.getpieces(audiofile, collect) out.encode(output_filename)

beat reversing

beats = audiofile.analysis.beats collect = [] beats.reverse() for beat in beats: collect.append(beat) out = audio.getpieces(audiofile, collect) out.encode(output_filename)

remix video

#MusicData

Tristan’s The SwingerMakes any song swing

Echo Nest Remix

http://echonest.github.com/remix/

How can I get started?

Get a key & check out our api docs - developer.echonest.comGet a wrapper for your language - C, iOS, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, moreIf you want to make music get Remix from our GitHub: github.com/echonest/Talk to us! paul@echonest.com

developer.echonest.com

paul@echonest.com