| Status | Privately Held |
| Website | the.echonest.com |
| Blog | nest.echonest.com |
| Category | Web |
| biz@echonest.com | |
| Address |
48 Grove St. Suite 205 Somerville, MA, 02144 USA |
| Employees | 10 |
| Founded | 6/05 |
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that develops music search, personalization and interactivity applications powered by a Musical Brain. The Musical Brain automatically reads about music and listens to music everywhere on the web. The Musical Brain is accessible to online music services and developers via a series of web-services APIs.
The company was founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research.
The Echo Nest’s Musical Brain combines large-scale web crawling, data mining, language processing and audio analysis to:
Read about music, constantly crawling the web and analyzing the text on millions of web pages (music reviews, artist sites, blog posts) to understand what the entire online world knows about every artist, album and song.
Listen to music, analyzing all of the music on the web to extract musical attributes such as key, tempo, rhythm, harmonic and timbral structures, understanding every song in the same way a musician would describe it (i.e.,“swing groove, tempo = 100 BPM, 4/4 time, key of B Flat, mezzo piano”).
Predicts music trends, synthesizing online behavior to actually predict new music trends.
