Announcing Echoprint
Announcing Echoprint
The Echoprint project has announced
its existence and initial release of code and data. "The Echo
Nest has been focusing on a crucial component of the oncoming music cloud
for some time: we spend a lot of time and engineering resources on music
resolving. This extends from mapping a query for a band name to its ID, to
uncovering mentions of songs on blogs, to identifying the song in an audio
stream without any metadata - otherwise known as fingerprinting. The Echo
Nest's existing fingerprint technology, 'The Echo Nest Musical Fingerprint'
aka ENMFP, has been in wide use privately and via our API for 18
months. Today we are unveiling a new fingerprint technology called
'Echoprint,' whose main feature is its complete openness - everything from
the program to analyze the audio to the server and data to make the match
are available for anyone to use, under a permissive open source license,
for free.
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