Brian Whitman

Music retrieval from everything

The Echo Nest Corporation, a music intelligence platform company based on years of music retrieval research and development, provides a number of retrieval, search and in- teractivity tools to music stores, social networks, musicians, developers and labels around the world. Our platform1 consists of a series of heterogeneous data types: text data from web crawls, audio signal processing and machine learning, natural language processing, graph manipulation and large scale map-reduce style data aggregation and sorting.

Care and scale: Fifteen years of music retrieval

The co-founder of The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that now powers recommendation and discovery for most music services, discusses the notion of care and scale, cultural analysis of music, a brief history of music retrieval, and how and why The Echo Nest got started.