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Re:Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music di... by iambatman on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:22AM (#7360312)
I think it's crazy that echonest still doesn't have any album information in their api, for building anything to do with music when is album info not useful?
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Re:Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music di... by acjohnson55 on Friday March 07, 2014 @09:25AM (#7360334)
Maybe they don't want to duplicate the effort of MusicBrainz. MusicBrainz is about warehousing preexisting metadata (track listings, credits, etc.), whereas EchoNest specializes in using algorithms to extract novel features.
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