vienna music tech meetup 2015-05-21
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Thomas Lidy
Vienna Music Technology
21 May 2015
Tom Lidy Music Aficionado, Entrepreneur, Audio Analysis Guru * 1998-2006 TU Wien Informatik * 2003-2004 Telecommunications, Sound & Image * 2004-2012 Research Assistant TU on Music Tech * 2008-2013 Founder Spectralmind * 2014 Data Mining in Industry * 2015 MusicBricks Project TU Wien
Audio Analysis Score Analysis
MFCC (Speech & Music) Rhythm Patterns
Classical
Rock
Feature Extraction
Concept Detection
Genre Recognition
Rhythm Key Melody Beat Tempo
Mood Detection
Visual „Music Maps“
Map of Mozart (2006)
PlaySOM (2005)
Audioscrobbler
2002
2007 sold to CBS for $280 million
2000
Started as a phone call in and SMS service in UK Now on 45% of all smartphones (500 Million users)
2000
How it works? Stores „peak points“ in Spectrogram of 20 million songs and matches them on demand
Europe‘s first legal download & streaming service 2003
2007
2006 First full streaming service
2007
First with Orange, then T-Mobile, Pro7/Sat.1
2008
Music recommendation with Fraunhofer algorithmus 2005
For artists exchanging tracks, now music streaming site
Personal recommendation with Fraunhofer algo.+ editorial
Emerged from CDDB, powering music metadata and music recommendation for 80-90% of music services (incl iTunes)
1998
2005
2001 Major US music portal, emerged from RealNetworks
2010
First blog, then social network, then music subscription
2012
First P2P music exchange. Merged into Rhapsody 2011 1999
Major Spotify competitor, created by Skype founders
Beats music: built on MOG, 2014 new Apple service
2003 Apple launched iTunes Store
2003 Social artist & fan network
2000 Personalized radio by manual annotation (Music Genome)
2007
2008
2005 MIT Spin-off, audio analysis API + blog indexing
Barcelona Spin-off, audio analysis for music recommendation + radio monitoring
TU Wien Spin-off, audio analysis for music search & visual music discovery apps
Search by Sound Sonarflow – visual music discovery
discovr
Planetary
Mufin mobile
Aweditorium
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Stopped by D. Telekom. Sold to Dixero Gmbh.
60 Mill User 2015
A lot of owner changes, Pro7/Sat.1 got in
Stopped. Mufin now on radio monitoring
Label deal, new investment, 175M unique listeners/mon
Acquired by Panasonic, focusing on car radio
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Sony sold the service
Major US music portal, emerged from RealNetworks
Sold to Beats
Merged into Rhapsody 2011
Surpassed by Spotify in the US
Sold to Apple, stopped & relaunched as new service.
Very successful
Sold to marketing company, loosing users
Successful, but only US and Australia
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Turntable.fm 89k uniques/m
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− Silicon Valley Investor
from research to industry
