The Echo Nest, music intelligence platform, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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The Echo Nest on Wikipedia

Co-founder - Tristan Jehan

Co-founder - Brian Whitman

Products and projects:

music intelligence platform

In March 2014, The Echo Nest was acquired by Spotify for 49.7 million euro, consisting cash and Spotify's equity.

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Brian Whitman - Music data is scary, beautiful exciting

Uploaded on Apr 7, 2011

Brian is the co-founder and CTO of The Echo Nest, an revolutionary online service that analyzes music, ; enriches it with loads of metadata and gives it back to developers using an open API. He talks about how this enables the long tail of music applications, as there will be a million ways to consume music.

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Changing Music One Listener at a Time: Brian Whitman at TEDxSomerville

Published on Apr 29, 2012

Brian teaches computers to listen to music. He was a frustrated electronic musician before packing it in for grad school at Columbia and the MIT Media Lab in natural language processing and machine learning to figure out what people talk about when they talk about music. Since then, he's co-founded Somerville's The Echo Nest, which powers discovery and the future of music for people like Spotify, Twitter, MTV, Clear Channel, major labels, and thousands of independent developers.