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Care and scale: Fifteen years of music retrieval

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The co-founder of The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that now powers recommendation and discovery for most music services, discusses the notion of care and scale, cultural analysis of music, a brief history of music retrieval, and how and why The Echo Nest got started.

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
        ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 9, Issue 1s
        Special Sections on the 20th Anniversary of ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2012
        October 2013
        218 pages
        ISSN:1551-6857
        EISSN:1551-6865
        DOI:10.1145/2523001
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        • Published: 17 October 2013
        • Accepted: 1 June 2013
        • Received: 1 May 2013
        Published in tomm Volume 9, Issue 1s

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