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(== (+ “Clojure”“Echo Nest”) “woah!”)
Here’s the first Echo Nest application (as far as I know) that is written in Clojure: Another reason I like Clojure
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Flash API for the Echo Nest
It’s a busy week for client APIs at the Echo Nest. Developer Ryan Berdeen has released a Flash API for the Echo Nest. Ryan’s API supports the track methods of the Echo Nest API, giving the flash...
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The Echo Nest Song API
This weekend at the Amsterdam Music Hack day we are releasing lots of new stuff. First of all, we opening up beta access to the next version of our APIs. This version is an all new architecture – that...
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Jennie’s ultimate road trip
Last weekend at Music Hack Day Boston, I teamed up with Jennie, my 15-year-old daughter, to build her idea for a music hack which we’ve called Jennie’s Ultimate Road Trip. The hack helps you plan a...
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What’s the TTKP?
Whenever Jennie and I are in the car together, we will listen to the local Top-40 radio station (KISS 108). One top-40 artist that i can recognize reliably is Katy Perry. It seems like we can’t...
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Finding artist names in text
Let’s say you have a block of text – perhaps a tweet or a web page from a music review site. If you want to find out if the text mentions a particular artist such as Weezer, it is a pretty...
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New Genre APIs
Today at the Echo Nest we are pushing out an update to our Genre APIs. The new APIs lets you get all sorts of information about any of over 800 genres including a description of the genre,...
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The Echo Nest Is Joining Spotify: What It Means To Me, and To Developers
I love writing music apps and playing with music data. How much? Every weekend I wake up at 6am and spend a long morning writing a new music app or playing with music data. That’s after a work week at...
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The Echo Nest + Spotify Sandbox
I am wearing my International Executive Music Hacker hat today. I’m writing this blog post at 5AM somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way to the Barcelona Music Hack Day, where I’ll be...
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My new superpower – creating Spotify playlists from a web app
The new Spotify Web API allows the developer to create and add tracks to a playlist on behalf of a listener. This is a pretty powerful feature, opening the door for a whole range of apps. For instance,...
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