The Echo Nest

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The Echo Nest Ltd. (Spotify)
Subsidiary
Industry Music
Founded June 2005 (2005-06)[1]
Founder Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman
Headquarters Somerville, MA, USA
Key people
 Tristan Jehan (co-Founder & CTO), Brian Whitman (co-Founder & CTO), Jim Lucchese (CEO)[2]
Products Music intelligence platform
Owner Spotify
Number of employees
 65[1]
Website the.echonest.com

The Echo Nest was a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies. Based in Somerville, MA, the Echo Nest was a research spin-off from the MIT Media Lab to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music.[3] Its creators intended it to perform music identification, recommendation, playlist creation, audio fingerprinting, and analysis for consumers and developers.[4]

On March 6, 2014 Spotify announced that they had acquired The Echo Nest.[5]

History

The Echo Nest was founded in 2005 from the dissertation work of Tristan Jehan[6] and Brian Whitman[7] at the MIT Media Lab.

In October 2010, The Echo Nest received a $7 million venture financing from Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.[4][8]

In July 2012 The Echo Nest received a $17.3 million Series D venture financing from Norwest Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Jim Pallotta.[1]

In March 2014, The Echo Nest was acquired by Spotify for an undisclosed amount.[9]

Products

The Echo Nest's product line was based on their automatically-derived database of data about 30 million songs[3] aggregated from web crawling, data mining, and digital signal processing techniques. The company also made its data available to developers via an API[10] used by over 7,000 developers[2] to build independent music applications. The Echo Nest released data on 1 million songs for research purposes.[11] The company was a co-organizer of Music Hack Day.[12]

In June 2011, the company released Echoprint, an open source and open data acoustic fingerprinting library.[13]

Clients

The data powered music solutions for customers such as MTV,[14] Island Def Jam,[15] BBC,[16] MOG, Warner Music Group, eMusic,[17] Spotify, Rdio, Clear Channel, VEVO, Nokia and Thumbplay.[2]

See also

References

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