Paul Lamere of The Echonest (and musicmachinery.com and one of Audiograins’ favorite music hackers) has produced a new web app at the Berlin Music Hack Day. Where is the Drama takes any song input recognized by Spotify and analyses it to find the 30 seconds or so of highest drama, defined as the portion of
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Echo Nest API and Remix SDK
I finally went ahead and registered as a developer for TheEchoNest API. It’s easy to do and only takes about a minute after which you can immediately send requests. The query format is pretty straightforward and can be sent as POST or GET (not always allowed as GET though) requests, with response such as the
Continue reading »The Loudness War – Now with Data and Charts!
I’ve mentioned The Loudness War before – squashing the dynamic range of a track to try and boost the loudness to make it stand out – but MusicMachinery.com has a great post with an in-depth explanation and the data to back it up. Paul Lamere of The EchoNest analyzed over 15,000 tracks to measure their loudness (and shows
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