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The Echo Nest

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2012: Music

Stories about The Echo Nest

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

Can a service that only showcases one song at a time fix the music discovery problem?

Why “This Is My Jam” Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

It’s Official: Music Gets Louder Every Year

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

Computer algorithms are at the cutting edge of modern classical music composition and can even write ‘new’ works by Bach and Mozart. Will such music ever be considered authentically human?

Can Computers Write Music That Has A Soul?

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest’s massive 30-million-song dataset.

The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio

Impact

A nationwide halt to evictions and utilities shutoffs could have lowered the COVID-19 death count

This cute little electric truck is a mobile vaccine unit

Fast Company Magazine

How LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company became the envy of Hollywood

News

The anti-monarchy movement is having a moment right now. You know why

Here’s what the CDC says you can do once you get vaccinated

Stimulus check 3: Here’s what happens next now that the Senate finally approved COVID-19 relief

Co.Design

Burger King incites rage for tweeting ‘Women belong in the kitchen’ on International Women’s Day

Malala Yousafzai launches her own production studio: ‘Entertainment can help us see what society should look like’

Black History Month branding was good. Now companies need to do it for the whole year

Work Life

A primer on the history of sexual harassment—and why it deserves a place in diversity training

We decided to give our team every other Friday off. Here’s what happened

This is how we fix the gender pay gap