Yes, that is a better analogy, but the technical bar for streaming audio is very low -- far lower than understanding the music. You'll be seeing a lot more cons

Yes, that is a better analogy, but the technical bar for streaming audio is very low -- far lower than understanding the music. You'll be seeing a lot more consumer oriented uses of our data in the near future that stream music. Developers interested in making a 'pandora of the future' should read about our deals with 7digital, IDJ and play.me/dada that handle the content side of things: http://notes.variogr.am/post/1373556723/the-future-music-platform-music-startups-imminent http://notes.variogr.am/post/1373556723/the-future-music-pla... http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/09/when-data-and-music-meet/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/09/when-data-and-music-me... http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/idj-echo-nest/ http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/idj-echo-nest/ For example, 7D has many millions of songs available for on demand streaming -- and you can get their IDs from us in API calls. Here's a pandora style playlist for KFW with 7D IDs, sorted by increasing tempo and only popular artists that sound like KFW; when we say things like "we have more data, we can do more" this is what we mean http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/playlist/static?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&artist=Keith%20Fullerton%20Whitman&type=artist-radio&artist_min_familiarity=.5&sort=tempo-asc&results=20&bucket=id:7digital&bucket=tracks http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/playlist/static?api_key...