What is The Echo Nest?
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research. The company has since grown to a small but insane team of developers, designers, musicians and business people all housed in a cozy office in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA. We grow an intelligence platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music for developers to build search, personalization and interactive music applications. • How come when I skip an artist sometimes the path gets shorter? Paths are picked based upon the strength of the relationship. A path that takes 4 steps may score better than a path with 3 steps if the relations in the 4 step path are stronger. • Why is this app so ugly? Because an engineer designed it. If you have design skills and would like to make it look better let me know. I’ll gladly give you credit with a link in th
