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This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to
by transpy 13y ago
This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to acquire it.
- untog 13y agoCorrect - IIRC their entire Radio feature is powered by The Echo Nest.
- anonymoushn 13y agoI'm sad to hear this, since the Radio feature is pretty bad. I guess that means losing The Echo Nest is no big deal, though.
- whopa 13y agoRdio also uses The Echo Nest for their radio feature, and it's great. I always chalked up Spotify's radio sucking vs. Rdio's radio being so good due to Spotify having shitty integration with The Echo Nest... maybe that will change. One thing that always struck me about Spotify is that they never seemed to put a priority on anything around actual music discovery.
- rot13 13y agoThat may have been the case at one point, but Spotify has used their own recommendation system for a while. http://www.quora.com/Spotify/Pandora-radio-is-built-on-their-music-genome-project-How-does-Spotify-program-their-radio-stations http://www.quora.com/Spotify/Pandora-radio-is-built-on-their...
- mpnordland 13y agoIf so, then the radio won't really improve. I prefer Pandora, but I can't get that now in my country.