So following the mantra that nothing is official until it is blogged about, let it be known that version 0.1.0 of my small pet project libechonest has been released. Tarball available here:
http://pwsp.cleinias.com/libechonest-0.1.0.tar.bz2 sha1: 4c4e6a478a3bd7be0121af586e635e30840fe984
What is libechonest? A small C++/Qt wrapper around the APIs provided by The Echo Nest: http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/ . And what is provided by these APIs? In few words, the same sort of information you get from Last.fm but much better and much, much cooler.
Some Amarok users who enjoy using the Dynamic Playlists feature may already be familiar with The Echo Nest, as it has already crept into recent Amarok releases. It has been possible to run a dynamic playlist based on Echo Nest-suggested similar artists and tracks for a few versions now. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the information available from The Echo Nest. They provide up to date information about artists including audio,bios, blogs, news, reviews, images, similar artists, and much more.
So libechonest is designed to make it as easy as possible to extract this wealth of information from whatever small app you are creating. Maybe the Plasma Media Center could display related images about the currently playing artist, for example, without having to figure out what images from the artist Spoon are actually about Spoon and not about a certain type of cutlery. Alternatively, a mobile app could use the beat analysis features in the API to play continuous music that fits a certain BPM to match up with your desired running cadence. The possibilities are, of course, endless![:-)]()
Anyway, libechonest is being developed in KDE's git repository at git://anongit.kde.org/libechonest . For the moment the public-facing site is on KDE's projects page: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest
http://pwsp.cleinias.com/libechonest-0.1.0.tar.bz2 sha1: 4c4e6a478a3bd7be0121af586e635e30840fe984
What is libechonest? A small C++/Qt wrapper around the APIs provided by The Echo Nest: http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/ . And what is provided by these APIs? In few words, the same sort of information you get from Last.fm but much better and much, much cooler.
Some Amarok users who enjoy using the Dynamic Playlists feature may already be familiar with The Echo Nest, as it has already crept into recent Amarok releases. It has been possible to run a dynamic playlist based on Echo Nest-suggested similar artists and tracks for a few versions now. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the information available from The Echo Nest. They provide up to date information about artists including audio,bios, blogs, news, reviews, images, similar artists, and much more.
So libechonest is designed to make it as easy as possible to extract this wealth of information from whatever small app you are creating. Maybe the Plasma Media Center could display related images about the currently playing artist, for example, without having to figure out what images from the artist Spoon are actually about Spoon and not about a certain type of cutlery. Alternatively, a mobile app could use the beat analysis features in the API to play continuous music that fits a certain BPM to match up with your desired running cadence. The possibilities are, of course, endless
Anyway, libechonest is being developed in KDE's git repository at git://anongit.kde.org/libechonest . For the moment the public-facing site is on KDE's projects page: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libechonest
