Spotify: Every song on Spotify is analyzed by machine learning to measure characteristics like danceability, energy, mood, tempo, and acoustics — data that powers all of Spotify's recommendation and discovery features. | AI Trace
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Every song on Spotify is analyzed by machine learning to measure characteristics like danceability, energy, mood, tempo, and acoustics — data that powers all of Spotify's recommendation and discovery features.
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Traces to Spotify's $100M acquisition of The Echo Nest in 2014. Exposed through the Spotify Web API (though as of May 2023, developers are prohibited from using API data to train AI models). Internally powers "Truffle Pig," an editor tool that lets Spotify's curators search the catalog using feelings and adjectives. Glenn McDonald's "Every Noise at Once" map identifies 4,341+ genres from this data.