notes.variogr.am - Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
october 2011 by infovore
"I cannot think of a worse fate: hearing something worse than John Mayer when you have to click on a link that says John Mayer. (Consider clicking on a Google search result for your dentist’s office phone number and getting your ex-girlfriend instead.)" This line is very funny, but the whole post is a shrewd explanation of the importance of resolution, and the fist Facebook makes of it. I hope consumers will discover they care about this more than they thought, too.
api
music
echonest
facebook
resolution
october 2011 by infovore
In search of the click track « Music Machinery
march 2009 by infovore
"I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK." Analysing tempo fluctuation on a variety of popular recordings to find out who uses a click track; as you might have guessed, Ringo and John Bonham didn't.
audio
music
sound
analysis
api
python
clicktrack
drummers
rhythm
march 2009 by infovore
Scrobbler by John Nunemaker
may 2007 by infovore
"Scrobbler is a [ruby library] wrapper for the audioscrobbler (last.fm) web services." It looks very ncie.
lastfm
audioscrobbler
ruby
gem
api
webservice
music
socialsoftware
may 2007 by infovore
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