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About 150 apps have already been made using the application theyвЂ™re listed here. On the commercial side, one of the most exciting uses of Echo Nest is that its data will empower the next generation of app-makers to make apps we canвЂ™t even imagine yet. What are the uses of data on 30 million songs? Broadly, there are two categories: commercial and academic. If you tweet about the band you saw last night, вЂњwe have that in our databases within the hour,вЂќ says Whitman. It crawls the web, Google-style, ravenous for new musical information.

(Echo NestвЂ™s system crunches that sort of data in about 10 seconds for a song)вЂ“and the вЂњcultural sideвЂќвЂ“what reviewers are saying about the music for instance. It then devours data about the music, on both the вЂњacoustic sideвЂќвЂ“tempo, key, etc. The Echo Nest crawls the web in search of music and writing about music it also partners with major labels like Universal and aggregators like 7Digital. вЂњBut if you want to dig deep down into a lot more music, you need some automated discovery platform.вЂќ Whereas Pandora proudly employs people to manually go through music and classify it, The Echo Nest, says Whitman, вЂњunderstands the world of music automatically.вЂќ And not just how it sounds.

вЂњItвЂ™s great for a top 40 radio experience,вЂќ Whitman tells Fast Company, giving Pandora credit where due. PandoraвЂ™s site declares that there are 800,000 songs and counting in its database. Even cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Westergren admitted recently that theyвЂ™re working on the repetition.

#MILLION SONG DATASET FREE#

The Echo Nest, a five-year-old company devoted to aggregating, indexing, using, and sharing vast troves of music data, just announced a collaboration with Columbia UniversityвЂ™s LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio) on something called the Million Song Dataset, free to use for non-commercial music researchers. Sure, weвЂ™ve come a long way, but thereвЂ™s still plenty we canвЂ™t doвЂ“our recommendation engines are limited, as is our ability to sift information automatically from songs (to tell the sex of a singer just from his or her voice, for instance). iTunes, Pandora, Rhapsody, music distribution and discovery couldnвЂ™t get any better, right? With the proliferation of music sites and apps, we must be at some sort of saturation point, after all, the telos of digital music technology.Д«ut spend a bit of time talking to Brian Whitman, cofounder of The Echo Nest, and you realize that weвЂ™re really in a digital music Stone Age. These results show that UBM adaptation is a valid method for MIR tasks, and that publicly available unlabeled music datasets can be used to augment the performance of content-based classifiers.You music lovers out there probably think weвЂ™re living in a Golden Age. It was found that for instrumentation classification, UBM adaptation used in conjunction with the MSD outperformed other traditional machine learning classifiers. Specifically, the novel use of universal background model (UBM) adaptation and the benefits of incorporating the Million Song Dataset (MSD) are examined. a jazz quartet or an a cappella group).In this thesis, musical ensemble classification is covered in depth. This operation is especially important for song recommendation systems, as users often search for songs produced by a specific ensemble (e.g. However, the task of determining the musical ensemble that produced a song has not seen much focus.

Content recommendation services specifically tailored to music have become popular, but most do not analyze audio content, and instead use some form of collaborative filtering which relies on previously-generated metadata.Some music information retrieval (MIR) researchers have instead used content analysis to determine the pertinent attributes of a song, such as the instruments present or the genre. Obtaining music has become easier with the introduction of digital audio formats and the internet, but the sheer amount of data available makes finding new songs that fit a particular taste a difficult task. M.S., Electrical Engineering - Drexel University, 2012 Keywords Electrical engineering Sound-Recording and reproducing-Digital techniques Digital electronics Musical ensemble classification using universal background model adaptation and the million song dataset

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