Consider using Echonest API to get similar artists

[lwholey]

• http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/index.html
• Please give us due credit when using the Echo Nest API and feeds. Display an Echo Nest logo available on the logos page along with a link to http://the.echonest.com/ when displaying content provided by the API or feeds.
• API key PZWDKUDNKSN4AV3N1
• Ideas for using this site
  • Easiest
  • user sends Eventful an overconstrained search (city, dates, and band x), and x is not playing
  • send Echonest a request ('terms' method) for the genre of music for band x, returns genre y
  • send Eventful a request for (city, dates, and genre y), returns bands z
  • Harder
  • repeat above three steps
  • filter the available bands further by using Echonest's 'similar' method to check for similarity between band x and bands z
  • if no bands found, continue search for similarity by finding bands similar to x and bands similar to z (until match is found - 6 degrees of...)
• Other ideas for using Echonest
  • 'suggest' method does this "Suggest artists based upon partial names. This method will return a list of potential artist matches based upon a query string. The method returns the most familiar best matching artist for the query." May be useful for Jazz concert listings.
  • Site also provides recommended videos for an artist with 'video' method

[johnwilde]

Echonest looks like a popular service that could provide a nice feature. I think I noticed that they requested that you limit the calls to their API to 1/sec. It might be nice to find out how often an overconstrained search is generated. I think the search results are being saved so it is probably as simple as looking at how many of them are empty.

Unrelated: http://railscasts.com/episodes/286-draper (just for the title).

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, lwrunner1 reply@reply.github.com wrote:

• http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/index.html
• Please give us due credit when using the Echo Nest API and feeds. Display an Echo Nest logo available on the logos page along with a link to http://the.echonest.com/ when displaying content provided by the API or feeds.
• API key    PZWDKUDNKSN4AV3N1
• Ideas for using this site  - Easiest    - user sends Eventful an overconstrained search (city, dates, and band x), and x is not playing    - send Echonest a request ('list_terms' method) for the genre of music for band x, returns genre y    - send Eventful a request for (city, dates, and genre y), returns bands z  - Harder    - repeat above three steps    - filter the available bands further by using Echonest's 'similar' method to check for similarity between band x and bands z    - if no bands found, continue search for similarity by finding bands similar to x and bands similar to z (until match is found - 6 degrees of...)
• Other ideas for using Echonest  - 'suggest' method does this "Suggest artists based upon partial names. This method will return a list of potential artist matches based upon a query string. The method returns the most familiar best matching artist for the query."  May be useful for Jazz concert listings.  - Site also provides recommended videos for an artist with 'video' method

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