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The Musical Brain
April 25, 2008
A company by the name of The Echo Nest has released an automated technology that appears to be similar to what Pandora does manually. The Musical Brain listens to audio files, extracting musical attributes, such as tempo, instrumentation, key, time signature, energy, harmonic and timbral structures, to understand every song in similar ways a musician would describe it (e.g. “heavy beat, swing groove, fast tempo, 4/4 time, key of B flat, mezzo piano”). The interesting thing is that they are offering an API for developers to harness this ingenious “brain”. Their website is a bit confusing and not terribly informative, and the current crop of applications using the brain are lackluster but there is a ton of potential here for developers to build some really cool and useful music applications based on the brain. I’m definitely going to keep my eye on this one.
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