- Location Headquarters
- Somerville, MA
- Website
- http://the.echonest.com/
- Founded on
- June 1, 2005
- Keywords
- search music recommendation api discovery personalization music-intelligence developers music-hack-day million-song-dataset
Company Profile
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's second application, Recommend, is an application programming interface that helps music services personalize their websites to each visitor's unique music taste. Any music website – bloggers, social networks, Internet radio or retailers – can easily access the Recommend API to offer users better music discovery tools.
The company was awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation in May, 2008. The grant will support The Echo Nest's continued development of its "Musical Brain," a large-scale data mining platform that actually reads about music and listens to music everywhere on the internet. The Echo Nest will apply its network and sentiment analysis technology to automatically cluster online communities by music preference and more deeply understand online music sentiment.