The Echo Nest
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The Echo Nest is a music intelligence platform company that provides music services to developers and media companies. Headquartered in Somerville, MA USA, the Echo Nest was created as a spin-off of research work at the MIT Media Lab
that automatically understands the audio and textual content of music and currently powers music data solutions such as recommendation, playlisting, fingerprinting and audio analysis for consumers and developers.
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In October 2010, The Echo Nest received a $7 million venture financing from Matrix Partners
and Commonwealth Capital Ventures
The company also provides its music data to developers via an API used by over 7000 developers to build independent music applications. The Echo Nest released 1 million of their songs for research purposes. The company is a co-organizer of Music Hack Day
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In June 2011, the company released Echoprint, a fully open source and open data acoustic fingerprint
solution.
, Island Def Jam, BBC
, MOG
, Warner Music Group
, eMusic
and Thumbplay
.
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
that automatically understands the audio and textual content of music and currently powers music data solutions such as recommendation, playlisting, fingerprinting and audio analysis for consumers and developers.
History
The Echo Nest was founded in 2005 from the dissertation work of Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman at the MIT Media LabMIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
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In October 2010, The Echo Nest received a $7 million venture financing from Matrix Partners
Matrix Partners
Matrix Partners is a US based private equity investment firm focusing on venture capital investments. The firm invests in seed and early stage companies in the United States and India, particularly in the software, communications, semiconductors, data storage, Internet or wireless sectors.The firm...
and Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Products
The Echo Nest's product line is based on their automatically-derived database of data about 30 million songs which is aggregated using web crawling, data mining and digital signal processing techniques. The data powers such products as music recommendation, playlist generation, acoustic analysis, music identification and data feeds.The company also provides its music data to developers via an API used by over 7000 developers to build independent music applications. The Echo Nest released 1 million of their songs for research purposes. The company is a co-organizer of Music Hack Day
Music Hack Day
Music Hack Day is a Hack Day specifically for the music industry. The first ever Music Hack Day was organised by Dave Haynes and James Darling and held at the London offices of The Guardian over the weekend of the 11/12 July 2009....
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In June 2011, the company released Echoprint, a fully open source and open data acoustic fingerprint
Acoustic fingerprint
An acoustic fingerprint is a condensed digital summary, deterministically generated from an audio signal, that can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in an audio database....
solution.
Clients
The data powers music solutions for customers such as MTVMTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, Island Def Jam, BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, MOG
MOG (online music)
MOG is a paid subscription online music service and blog network, where users can listen to, read about, and discover music. Users can play any song in MOG's catalog on their computer through their web browser; on their mobile device through MOG's applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and...
, Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
, eMusic
EMusic
eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....
and Thumbplay
Thumbplay
Thumbplay is a U.S.-based subscription service that allows users to download music, video and games to their cell phones. Users can manage, store and share their mobile content online and on their wireless devices...
.