Limit tracks per artist in a track search
Is it possible to limit the number of times an artist appears in a track search using the Echo Nest API? A lot of my search combinations return a large number of tracks by the same artist whereas I'd...
View ArticleStreaming Capsule-ish Remix Project
I'm an artist and web developer based out of Pensacola, Florida looking for a developer who can assist in a Remix project that involves dynamically appending segments of the "longest pop song in the...
View ArticleTotal count of song/search results
Hi Noeltake a look at artist bucket value 'doc_counts'doc_counts: returns document counts for each of the various artist document typesaudio: "0" biographies: "7" blogs: "2877" images: "167" news:...
View ArticleIs there a way to find if song is heavy metal using Track Analysis
Hi - I am trying to differentiate a song that has a lot of drums vs another which has very light drums. What is the best attribute in TrackAnalysis to use this? Say I have 2 songs like "Smoke on the...
View ArticleTotal count of song/search results
Hello Noel, you'r project interesting me, can i contact you by pm? thanks!Jean Luc Boeuf
View ArticleUsing Echonest to Analyze a Set of Salsa Songs
Salsa! Hecor LaVoe, Willie Colon? Echonest returns most of those details, with varying degrees of accuracy and it would not be terribly difficult to loop through a list of tracks in a directory and...
View ArticleDo LocalAudioFile objects contain PCM data?
I'd like to try using the module https://gist.github.com/psobot/2387349 in conjunction with remix.Do LocalAudioFile objects contain PCM data?
View ArticleWarning: no metadata returned for track. 'Track' object has no attribute
Think that ultimate reason for this issue was that an older version of remix was being installed.
View ArticleInstrumentalness, Speechiness, and Identifying Instrumentals
I noticed a new audio_summary data point called Instrumentalness and took a quick look through the songs I have and I'm getting results that don't make sense. That is, they don't make sense if I assume...
View ArticleInstrumentalness, Speechiness, and Identifying Instrumentals
Another check shows that less than 2% of my songs have a Speechiness over 0.3, so Speechiness doesn't seem to be a great thing to use to identify instrumentals.
View ArticleLimit tracks per artist in a track search
There's no direct way, but you may want to try using the playlist API instead, since it has many of the same capabilities of song/search while limiting song and artist dups -- Paul
View ArticleArtist search "results" and "start" parameters not working
Hello, Has there been any progress on this? Is there a way I can work around this problem to paginate correctly?
View ArticleArtist search "results" and "start" parameters not working
Hi Noahsimon. This is indeed a bug, but we're still figuring out the best way to address it. I can't promise when a fix will be available.Can you say more about what you're trying to do? (Why do you...
View Articlehow to know in which second in the track user started detection ?
i search in the api for a while but didn't get a clear answer how to know in which second (min whatever ) in the track user started detecting ?for example if the track is 5 mins what i want to do :...
View ArticleInstrumentalness, Speechiness, and Identifying Instrumentals
Scottes,Your guess at the meaning of "instrumentalness" is correct. Glad the name was obvious enough!The first thing to keep in mind is that instrumentalness is what we call an "alpha" attribute....
View ArticleInstrumentalness, Speechiness, and Identifying Instrumentals
I kinda figured that Intrumentalness was alpha. And many thanks for the explanation of Speechiness. I just assumed that singing would fall into this because you don't have Singingness. :-)Let me know...
View ArticleIs there a way to find if song is heavy metal using Track Analysis
Mita,While there will certainly be differences in analysis between those two specific tracks, finding a model that predicts heavy metal or acoustic similarity in the general case is a much harder...
View ArticleSeattle Artists Location Categorization
Wow, no response. While the band I mentioned has had their location removed the problem still persists with others.
View ArticleSeattle Artists Location Categorization
Hi benobee. Thanks for pointing this out, and we'll take a look.-Eli
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