How It Works - The "Musical Brain"
The Echo Nest’s developer platform is powered by the world’s first machine learning platform for music. Based on 12 years of R&D at MIT, Columbia and Berkeley, the Echo Nest’s music intelligence platform combines large-scale data mining, natural language processing, acoustic analysis and machine learning to automatically:
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Listen To Music
Analyzing every song on the web to extract key, tempo, rhythm and timbre and other attributes — understanding every song in the same way a musician would describe it (i.e.,“swing groove, tempo = 100 BPM, 4/4 time, key of B Flat, mezzo piano”).
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Read About Music
Crawling the web and analyzing the text on millions of web pages to understand what the entire online world knows about every artist, album and song.
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Learn Music Trends
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Analyzing online music behavior (social networks, p2p, blogs, online forums, playlists) to understand online buzz and predict new music trends.
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Building the Future of Music
Music services, record labels, independent developers and more are all tapping into The Echo Nest platform to smarter music applications.
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