In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been obsessed with understanding music for the past 8 years since it was founded by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan out of MIT Medialab.

Erik Bernhardsson

Spotify (via Erik Bernhardsson) announces the acquisition of Echo Nest, a Boston-based music intelligence company founded out of MIT Medialab. Echo Nest brings complementary capabilities including audio analysis, cultural understanding via web scraping, playlisting, and a developer API, while Spotify contributes collaborative filtering, A/B testing, and scalability expertise. The post hints at upcoming product integrations.

Welcome Echo Nest!