Tag: echonest

  • Our #musichackday hack – Stealing Feeling!

    Our #musichackday hack – Stealing Feeling!

    UPDATE: We actually won an iPad Mini courtesy of Echonest for the hack! Very encouraging! Me, Fredrik and Adrian attended the Music Hackday in Stockholm, and made a little something. In short: 1. Steal the feeling from someone who’s got more of it than you. 2. Apply it to your music. It’s based around a 16…

  • Line-out scrobbler – when DJ’ing

    Line-out scrobbler – when DJ’ing

    When DJ’ing at Debaser Slussen yesterday, we decided to hook up the Line out scrobbler to the DJ mixer. I knew that Echonest wouldn’t be able to resolve all weird stuff we play, but was hoping for at least 70% success rate. Unfortunately we had a resolve rate of about 20%, which make our little…

  • Line-out scrobbler

    for years i’ve been trying to hijack music recognition services like shahzam to be able to recognize music. i’ve finally got this working thanks to the fine guys at echonest, who kindly provide a proper api for this. my proof of concept is running on a spare macbook. here’s how it works on the mac…