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Streaming DJ, Now a Thing: djay for iPad Adds Spotify, Automix, Could Turn Music Upside Down
Remember downloads? Remember CDs? Remember vinyl? Add to that – streams. Because Algoriddim adding Spotify to djay is earth-shaking. Sure, Pacemaker did this in February. But that app was thin on some critical features DJs need, and the Spotify integration was lackluster. This is different. djay is a mature, full-featured DJ app – maybe not […]
Read moreData+Music: Echo Nest and 7Digital on Discovery, Ping, and Social Music’s Future
Photo (CC-BY-ND) verityatthedisco. Remember the music industry? We used to talk about radio play and record deals. Now, we’re talking developers, APIs, and analytics. Of course, the test, now as then, is whether there’s actually substance for music listeners and artists. On Friday, we looked at Apple’s Ping and how, via TuneCore, artists who aren’t […]
Don’t Mean A Thing: Swinger Adds Swing to Anything
Photo (CC) John Manoogian III. Wish you could make any track swing? Tristan Jehan, grad of the MIT Hyperinstruments Group and c0-founder of The Echo Nest, made that happen at San Francisco’s Music Hack Day. The Python code uses the Echo Nest’s sound-processing magic, available to the world via open Web APIs, in order to […]
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