Comments on: Spotify + Echo Nest == w00t!

By: cuu508

cuu508 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:43:48 +0000

+1, please please

By: The Echo Nest, Developer of “Music Brain,” Taps VCs for $1.3M – GigaOM

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:57:05 +0000

[...] new round of funding from venture investors. The startup, which has announced partnerships with the Spotify and MOG music services, had previously raised an undisclosed amount of money from Commonwealth [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:06:58 +0000

+1, when are we gonna see this in Spotify?!

-E

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:20:29 +0000

Still no Echo Nest playlist feature available in Spotify client! How’s the progress here, when will it be available finally?

By: Recommendation Engine Optimization | Fine Tuning

Recommendation Engine Optimization | Fine Tuning — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:57:30 +0000

[...] recommandation sont en plein essor. Nous avons déjà eu l’occasion d’évoquer le sujet et l’annonce du partenariat entre Spotify et Echo Nest me fait penser qu’on en [...]

By: Weekly Digest on the Music Industry - May 24, 2009 | Snowcrashing

Weekly Digest on the Music Industry - May 24, 2009 | Snowcrashing — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:54:37 +0000

[...] Spotify and EchoNest demo a new recommendation engine at the San Francisco Music Tech Summit [...]

By: 2009 SanFrancisco MusicTech Summit | Snowcrashing

2009 SanFrancisco MusicTech Summit | Snowcrashing — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:27:54 +0000

[...] Spotify will be soon deploying the EchoNest engine through its Expand Playlist feature. Paul Lamere blog post is a recommended read for a better understanding of the engine’s ins and [...]

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:49:52 +0000

Sorry, this is a topic I’m passionate about, so one more link, if you’re interested:

http://irgupf.com/2009/03/25/good-interaction-design-trumps-smart-algorithms/

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:00:14 +0000

Ok, I just finished watching that whole TED talk. And I agree that decision making can be difficult, and that (depending on how the question is phrased) we can easily be mislead/illusioned into going a certain direction.

I still don’t think it fully applies here, though, because the speaker is talking about making decisions between various options. You have a couple of options and you can only select one of them. Once you’ve chosen Rome, you can’t choose Paris. Once you’ve chosen Tom, you can’t choose Jerry.

With music recommendation, you’re not irrevocably choosing as much as you are exploring (”Music Explaura” :-). By it’s very nature, exploration is a very different process than choosing. In exploration, you want options. You don’t want to take a single path. You might not know very well how best to make use of those options, I agree. And 50 options is probably better than 1.3 million options. But 50 options is also much better than 1 or 2 options.

By: strontype

strontype — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:23:08 +0000

Sorry, typo: “The solution is not to overreact in the other *direction*”, not the other directory :-)