Music Machinery

Here’s a video of an early prototype of a 3D Music Explorer that runs as a Spotify App.  The visualization shows a series of interconnected Echo Nest playlists that you can explore.  You can fly through your music,  listen to anything you see, and create a new playlist starting at any point in the visualization, all from within the Spotify App.

I’m using the awesome three.js for the 3D bits, all the rest is Echo Nest and Spotify APIs.  Frame rates with 500 albums showing is  60 FPS   Note that there’s a strange interaction between quicktime (that I used for screen capture) and Spotify audio – I wasn’t able to play new songs in Spotify while recording the demo, so there’s no song changes in the video.