Tag: spotify
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Platformed! Music’s New ‘Disempowerment’ Business Model
In his book, Noise, Jacques Attali makes a startling assertion – that music is the vanguard of revolution. Changes, he says, in the relationship between music and the economic and social structures that govern its position and remuneration prefigure fundamental changes in those structures themselves. He’s probably too busy to publish an update, but with…
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A Truth-Based Alternative to Spotify’s Danceability Index
When Spotify bought Echonest, several years ago, they added a set of skills and knowledge in how computing can be used to analyse music. This field of work is fundamental to recommendation systems. Conventionally researchers had taken one of two approaches; either try to understand how listeners express previous preferences, individually and collectively, and project…