Music and Bits
If you are heading to Amsterdam next week for the Amsterdam Dance Event, you may want to check out the Music & Bits pre-conference. This year Music & Bits is hosting two tracks: a traditional...
View ArticleThe SQL Join is destroying music
Brian Whitman,one of the founders of the Echo Nest, gave a provocative talk last week at Music and Bits. Some excerpts: Useless MIR Problems: Genre Identification – “Countless PhDs on this useless...
View ArticleHow much is a song play worth?
Over the last 15 years or so, music listening has moved online. Now instead of putting a record on the turntable or a CD in the player, we fire up a music application like iTunes, Pandora or Spotify...
View ArticleWhat is that song?
One of the biggest problems faced by music application developers is song identification – that is – given an mp3 file, how can you accurately find the name of the song, album and artist? There are...
View ArticleHow music recommendation works – and doesn’t work
Brian just posted ‘How Music Recommendation works – and doesn’t work‘ over at his Variogr.am blog. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of the art in music recommendation. Here’s an...
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