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.
