Every week, thousands of artists release albums on Spotify. Sifting through all this new music to find good stuff to listen to can be hard. Luckily, there are lots of tools from New Music Tuesd...
My weekend programming project this week was to explore a new feature of the Spotify Web API that allows you to find albums that have been released in the last two weeks. The result is a web app ...
https://musicmachinery.com/2015/04/26/fresh-faces-on-spotify/
One of the problems with working at a company like Spotify is that my Spotify account gets filled up with all sorts of work-related playlists. Over the last few years I’ve built lots of apps t...
Yesterday I gave a talk at SXSW about what we can learn about how we listen to music by looking at all sorts of listener data that we collect at Spotify. You can see the slides for my talk here...
https://musicmachinery.com/2015/03/18/how-we-listen-to-music/
The Spotify Insights team took a deep dive into some of the listening data of college students to see if there were any differences in how students at different schools listen. We looked at a wid...
My Music Hack Day Berlin hack was “Where’s the Drama?” – a web app that automatically identifies the most dramatic moment in any song and plays it for you. I’ve been having lots of fun ...
https://musicmachinery.com/2014/09/08/more-on-wheres-the-drama/
On the very same day that Spotify announced its acquisition of The Echo Nest they released a brand new Spotify iOS SDK. Trying this new SDK out has been high on my priority list, and finally af...
https://musicmachinery.com/2014/03/30/spotify-ios-token-exchange-service-in-python/
I love writing music apps and playing with music data. How much? Every weekend I wake up at 6am and spend a long morning writing a new music app or playing with music data. That’s after a work ...
Spotify just released a nifty embeddable play button. With the play button you can easily embed Spotify tracks in any web page or blog. Since there’s really tight integration between the Spot...
https://musicmachinery.com/2012/04/11/the-spotify-play-button-a-lightening-demo/
With the recently announced Spotify integration into Rosetta Stone, The Echo Nest now makes available a detailed audio analysis for millions of Spotify tracks. This audio analysis includes summ...
https://musicmachinery.com/2012/04/09/syncing-echo-nest-analysis-to-spotify-playback/