Music, Sound, and Audio Technology
The Echo Nest and Thumbplay Partner for Music Discovery Features
By Staff
posted Feb 18, 2010, 14:25
The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform that helps developers make online music smarter, announces it is enabling advanced music discovery for the new Thumbplay Music service.
(Somerville, MA) The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform that helps developers
make online music smarter, announces it is enabling advanced music discovery
for the new Thumbplay Music service. The Echo Nest is powered by the world's
first machine learning system for music that actually reads about music and
listens to music everywhere on the web. At http://developer.echonest.com/
developers can easily tap into this deep musical understanding to create more
intelligent, engaging and interactive music applications.
The cloud-based Thumbplay Music provides unlimited, on-demand access to millions
of songs and is now offered in Beta in the U.S. by invitation-only (request
at http://www.thumbplay.com). Thumbplay
and The Echo Nest are working together to offer users a wide range of music
discovery and interactive playlisting experiences. Notably, the new service
includes AutoPlaylist, the first mobile application of its kind in the U.S.,
which allows users to instantly-generate playlists based on a single, selected
track.
Thumbplay Music is currently available on select BlackBerry® smartphones
and its companion app for PCs/Macs® is available through a downloadable
Adobe®AIR® version. Thumbplay Music is a next generation service, built
by experts in mobile content delivery and will be widely available on BlackBerry,
Android™ and iPhone® smartphones within the first quarter of 2010.
Today, the service has more than 8 million tracks under license from all major
labels and more than 25,000 independent labels.
AutoPlaylist applies The Echo Nest's combined understanding of a song's musical
attributes, such as tempo, instrumentation, key, time signature, energy, harmonic
and timbral structures along with cultural attributes such as an artist's popularity
and fan base, resulting in the most comprehensive and intuitive mobile playlisting
experience available anywhere. All Thumbplay Music playlists are fully interactive
and users can add to, delete or change playlists at any time. In addition, after
discovering a new artist, users can listen to full albums on demand. Playlists
are also available for offline playback when a network connection is unavailable.
Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest, said: "We are having a great time
collaborating with Thumbplay. Both companies share an obsession with giving
fans more immersive, interactive music discovery experiences around Thumbplay's
huge music catalog. We've been very impressed with the speed of product development
and the incredible growth in their catalog over a very short period of time."
Added Evan Schwartz, CEO and Co-Founder of Thumbplay: "The brilliant team
at The Echo Nest has delivered functionality to Thumbplay Music that has not
been realized before on any other mobile service. Now music fans have all of
their favorite functions on one service -- unlimited, on-demand music on their
smartphones and PCs/Macs, online and offline play, wireless syncing between
devices and notably, the incredibly intuitive, dynamic music discovery tools
that we built with The Echo Nest. People are very impressed when they see AutoPlaylist
in action; and, of course, this is just the beginning of our work together."
Thumbplay, which enjoys sustained profitability, has built an award-winning
service centered on delivering millions of pieces of mobile content to 95 percent
of U.S. devices among every major carrier. Thumbplay will leverage its existing
network of more than 8,000 distribution partners to promote Thumbplay Music.
Resources:
The Echo Nest: www.echonest.com
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