Danceability/Valence
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...
View ArticleAPI 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...
View ArticleLooking for a small subset of tracks in SQL
Infochimps has some alternatives of the MSD that may help youhttp://www.infochimps.com/collections/million-songs
View ArticleDanceability/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...
View ArticleAPI Maintenance - track methods will be offline
Our scheduled maintenance is over. All track methods are back online. Thanks for your patience. -- Paul
View ArticleSearch 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...
View ArticleNews 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...
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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,...
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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...
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Guys suddenly I started to get news from today after 3 days without getting anything new.
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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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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!
View ArticleUpload 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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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()...
View Articlelist_genres broken?
hi Pauli 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 ;-)
View Articlelist_genres broken?
julius - check to see if the old result is cached somewhere on your end. We are serving up the full list. -- Paul
View Articlelist_genres broken?
Also, here in the Echo Nest offices we will now listen to Albanian Pop for 15 minutes in honor of this bug.
View ArticleExceeding 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...
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