Hello there,
This is my first post on this forum. I am starting my Master's thesis at TU Delft in Netherlands in the Multimedia Computing and am planning on using the SoundCloud as my music source and EchoNest APIs to analyze content such as bpm. I will be writing the app on iOS and will be sending a SoundCloud track's stream_url field to EchoNest to receive a JSON object with the response.
My question is: - Do I first need to download the song from SoundCloud locally, then POST it to EchoNest and get the JSON object response OR can I simply do a POST request with the SoundCloud song's stream_url field which would save me the round-trip time of downloading the whole song and then uploading it again? - Purely from a software integration point of view, it seems like EchoNest works much closer with Spotify given the unified track ID fields. Any comments on this? Are there any plans (or already) of supporting SoundCloud with the EchoNest APIs?
Thanks a lot, Abhishek.