Hi, I've been reading about the danceability and valence metrics that echonest uses. My understanding is that these values are comprised of multiple other factors such as rhythm, beat intensity, tempo (danceability) and acousticness, loudness (valence). Are these determinations entirely machine-based or are there people who rate each song individually. Thanks for any assistance!
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Danceability/Valence
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API Maintenance - track methods will be offline
On Wednesday, September 11, we will be performing system maintenance on some back-end data stores. During this time our track methods will be offline. They will return an HTTP 503 response code (Service Unavailable). The maintenance window is from 10AM to 5PM EDT on 9/11. During that time the track/upload and the track/profile API calls will be unavailable. We will post on this thread when maintenance is complete.
Apologies for the late notice and any inconvenience this causes.
-- Paul
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Looking for a small subset of tracks in SQL
Infochimps has some alternatives of the MSD that may help you
http://www.infochimps.com/collections/million-songs
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Danceability/Valence
illdopa - some of the attributes such as loudness are objective and need no human input, while others, such as danceability require some human training. For attributes like danceability, we will manually label a pool of songs with danceability scores that we will then use to train our machine models. --Paul
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API Maintenance - track methods will be offline
Our scheduled maintenance is over. All track methods are back online. Thanks for your patience. -- Paul
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Search for song by time_signature?
I don't see any way to find songs with a given time_signature - that isn't a valid parameter for song.search. E.g. when I'm just looking for slow 7/4 songs or slow (dance-able!) waltzes. Is there any way to find them (without doing lots of tempo queries and throwing out the vast majority that don't match)?
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News API
I've been noticing since last friday that the news feeds is just giving news from last friday 13, sept. Today is the 16th and nothing new from saturday or sunday is coming in the feed. This is the url I am running:
http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/news?api_key=xxxxA0VWEB&format=json&id=ARFCWSZ123526A0AFD&results=100&start=0
Which belongs to Justin Bieber. Please let me know what's going on!
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News API
As a complement this is what got just right now when requesting the url from my previous post:
{ "response": { "status": { "version": "4.2", "code": 0, "message": "Success" }, "start": 0, "total": 9189, "news": [{ "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1714022/x-factor-season-3-auditions-recap-roxxy-montana.jhtml", "id": "000e4b84ea4b3124b4ce277f1228372b",
"date_found": "2013-09-13T00:00:00",
"name": "'X Factor' Recap: Simon Cowell Gets Pinata'd, Demi Lovato Says 'Don't Call Me Woman'",
"summary": "\"Sara Smile.\" The vocals were a bit shaky, but AlCal more than made up for it with teen dream charisma and the opposite of whatever Pena thinks he has.\"If I were 18 ... then I would want you to take me out on a date,\" Kelly Rowland joked. Cowell damn near dubbed him the new <span>Justin Bieber</span>.Over 25s Doggie day care owner and new dad Jeff Brinkman, 36, did a credible job on rock chestnut \"You Are So Beautiful,\" giving it a nice Joe Cocker-like rasp. Rowland loved his sincerity and Cowell called it flat-out \"brilliant.\" Nashville's Rachel Potter, 29, was hoping to finally get her chance at country stardom with a"
}, {
"url": "http://music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=Sting-fears-for-Bieber&nItemID=70370",
"id": "3e8240b43d13bf2f50de63a09a13b8e9",
"date_found": "2013-09-13T00:00:00",
"name": "Sting fears for Bieber",
"summary": "Printable version Sting hopes <span>Justin Bieber</span> will \"survive\" stardom. The 61-year-old musician has enjoyed a lengthy career, starting out with The Police in the '70s. In 2007 he reunited with the band for The Police Reunion Tour and he's also had success as a solo artist. However, he's pleased he's not starting out in the industry right now. Young stars such as Justin, 19, who has hit headlines with his controversial behaviour recently, worry Sting. \"Oh, I'd love another hit! It's fun to have a hit. But that hit would have to reflect me as a 61-year-old man. I'd find it demeaning, otherwise,\" he mused to British newspaper The Guardian. \"Fame and ego and money can do terrible things. I know it's a cliché, but you still see people going through it. Look at <span>Justin Bieber</span> ' it's like he's in freefall. I just hope he survives it because a lot of people don't. \"If I could give any advice to young musicians, it would be this: just try and enjoy it, because that truly explosive bit doesn't last forever.\" Sting is under no illusion about how far he's made it in showbiz. He knows people would cater to his every whim, but also isn't shy about how hard he's had to work to get there. \"I'm given the licence to do things by"
}, {
"url": "http://music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=The-Wanteds-Tom-Parker-defends-Bieber&nItemID=70318",
"id": "d826c997c5a7078cc560573b06656f25",
"date_found": "2013-09-12T00:00:00",
"name": "The Wanted's Tom Parker defends Bieber",
"summary": "Printable version The Wanted's Tom Parker defends <span>Justin Bieber</span>, says he has done a lot worse things. Speaking with The Huffington post UK, Tom Parker has confessed he's \"done a lot worse\" than <span>Justin Bieber</span>. \"Anything he does away from his squeaky clean image is seen as him being a bad lad, but he's just doing things that a normal nineteen-year-old would do.\" \"I've done a lot worse, but because I'm a lot older and wasn't in the public eye at that age, no one knows or cares.\" \"He's just maturing and I kind of like how he's not that kid that sang 'Baby' any more. He's turning into a handsome young chap\" Have"
},
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Get an artist's main genre
While browsing MTV's website I found that it's powered somehow by EchoNest :-)
There is a great feature overthere, the artist's main genre :
Can we expect to get such feature from the API in a future release ?
Thanks !
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News API
Guys suddenly I started to get news from today after 3 days without getting anything new.
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News API
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, sportstreet. We've fixed the problem that was preventing new news from showing up in the API, which is why it's suddenly working again.
-Eli Daniel
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News API
Hi sportstreet,
Thanks for noticing and reporting. We did have a hiccup with our news feeds and we did just fix it. You should see news for the last three days back filling now.
Thanks again!
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Upload Track
Manuel149 - as you can see the problem is that you are exceeding your rate limit. You can upgrade your limit to 120 calls per minute by going to your account page.
Paul
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Upload Track
Hi Manuel,
waitForAnalysis will call track/profile a number of times while waiting, and it does not throttle itself. Along with upping your rate limit, I would suggest calling track.getStatus() repeatedly and sleeping for a few seconds between calls.
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list_genres broken?
hi Paul
i just tried it, still the same result... i do not min beeing limited to a few genres but the albanian pop is hard to bear ;-)
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list_genres broken?
julius - check to see if the old result is cached somewhere on your end. We are serving up the full list. -- Paul
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list_genres broken?
Also, here in the Echo Nest offices we will now listen to Albanian Pop for 15 minutes in honor of this bug.
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list_genres broken?
I'm particularly liking this Albanian compilation.
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list_genres broken?
Got the whole list again. Thanks for your help Julius
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Exceeding Limit = 100
I am involved in a comparative analysis of music search and similarity methods. The statistical validity of my analysis is greatly improved if I can analyse ALL results from queries as my sample size is more representative.
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