David Weiszfeld’s career has focussed around solving a recurring problem: how to navigate the glut of data relating to artists and songs. After leaving Universal Music in 2013 and founding […]
Tag: Music Recommendation
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How music discovery and fan commitment are inextricably linked
Guest column: Music Ally publishes guest columns which voice the opinions of notable authors that advance specific perspectives on important issues. These are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion and […]
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Rhapsody’s Android app’s ‘concierge’ feature takes on Songza
Rhapsody has revamped its Android app with a “new concierge feature” called Replay, which suggests music based on listening history at that time and day.
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SpotOn Radio on the problems with social music recommendations
Here’s something we’ve been trying to put into words for a while: the problem with the first wave of Facebook-fuelled music recommendation services is that a lot of people don’t actually share music tastes even with their best friends.
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Could Pandora launch a Spotify app? Maybe.
The caveat to this story is that Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren was responding to a leading question from Fast Company, rather than making any kind of announcement about plans for a Pandora-branded app on Spotify’s apps platform.
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Music Ally Report : Platform power
In this week’s report: – Our lead asks whether the future of online music might rest in the hands of just five companies. Is Spotify about to become a ‘power […]
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Music Ally Report : Discovery Channels
– Nokia and Pure Digital’s newly announced digital music services
– Feature: live music streaming
– Music recommendation
– Market profile: Canada
– Comment: Kim De Ruiter, Noise Inc
Plus all the usual start-ups, deals and stats…
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Sonic Seeds aims to take on Pandora with recommendation tech
Everyone wants to take on Pandora at the moment, actually, from Clear Channel and the soon-to-relaunch Myspace through to new startups claiming whizzier recommendation technology. One of those is Sonic Seeds, which is using a music-fingerprinting algorithm to recommend songs to its users. The technology behind it was developed by Music Intelligence Solutions, which runs the Uplaya digital A&R service.
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Rexly wants to do a better job than Ping of making iTunes social
US startup Rexly launched out of stealth mode last night, and is aiming to put a social layer on top of Apple’s iTunes. Users download a helper app which tracks every song they …
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Echo Nest’s Paul Lamere explains the WTF test for music recommendations
Google has been talking up the Instant Mix feature in its Music Beta service – it creates a playlist of similar tracks based on a single song chosen by the user. The Echo Nest’s Paul Lamere has been trying to assess how good it is by using his ‘WTF Test’…
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mySpoonful launches indie recommendation service
A regular email newsletter aggregating information on a particular subject so you don’t have to trawl lots of websites yourself? It’ll never take off…
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Gracenote gets into mood-music
Gracenote has announced a new version of its Discover music recommendation engine.