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gfodor
on Dec 4, 2012
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Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, m...
I pay for and use MOG and their recommendations are pretty good. Certainly this could be the case that "everything sucks I am going to execute better than everyone" but it's a sexy problem (not a schlep) and everyone seems to be working on it.
chrischen
on Dec 4, 2012
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Their recommendations use Echonest, and as far as I know so do Rdio and Spotify. You can access those recommendations via an API for free!
parbo
on Dec 4, 2012
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Spotify does not use Echonest for recommendations.
chrischen
on Dec 4, 2012
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/16/echo-nest-is-the-man-behi...
Not true anymore?
parbo
on Dec 5, 2012
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For recommendations, we use our own algorithms. For radio, we use Echonest in some cases, but mostly our own stuff.
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