Comments on: Hottt or Nottt?

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:12:18 +0000

Paul, appreciate for the information. So the familiarity seems like kind of long-term hotness.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:12:47 +0000

Dean: We don’t publish the exact details of how we determine familiarity or hotttnesss – we are constantly refining our algorithms and sources – but some major components for familiarity is overall playcounts (from numerous music sites), sales rank, chart appearances and appearance on the web.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:09:41 +0000

Thanks brian. I know that information is available in the api. What I wonder is how it is calculated because the api seems expose no details about it. The way how it be measured may reveal the correlation with hotness. or did I miss sth in the EchoNest doc?

By: brian

brian — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:41:44 +0000

what paul doesn’t say because he thinks most people already know is that both familiarity and hotttnesss are available for free in the Echo Nest API available on http://developer.echonest.com/ once you register for a key.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:41:45 +0000

hey good post! I’m just curious about how the familiarity is determined for each artist?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:16:35 +0000

Perhaps the two sides of this graph should form the input into outlierFM’s upcoming 24/7 radio…interested in getting me a data stream?

By: Thierry BM

Thierry BM — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:29:20 +0000

Awesome! is there any way to track that in time, e.g. see how a well-known and maybe fading artist has moved from one side of the plane to the other one over 10 years? Then you measure how much the artist have reinvented themselves by how many times they have crossed the diagonal… maybe…