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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...

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The 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...

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A Singular Christmas

Oh lookie – Brian has re-posted his Singular Christmas

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How 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...

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What 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...

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How 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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