March 2012
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Summer Internship @musiXmatch: spend 3 months in...
We are offering the chance to be one of the FIRST, and one of the very FEW people who will get the opportunity to Intern at musiXmatch for our Summer Internship.
This won’t be like any others Internship, we’re talking about Italy, spend the summer in Italy, being in Bologna, just 27 min from Florence and 1 hour by Venice and 2 and half from Rome.
More than all ….just 40min from the...
The Echo Nest Blog: Musixmatch Brings Largest... →
echonest:
Musixmatch tracks a lot of lyrics — that’s one reason why The Echo Nest enthusiastically welcomes Musixmatch onto our Project Rosetta Stone platform.
Project Rosetta Stone brings the unique ability to help music services “talk” to one another to the music and technology industries, by lining…
February 2012
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3,000,000 thanks. musiXmatch reaches 3 mln users...
When it comes to communicating a milestone for a startup active in the music space by just 2 years, whatever it is it’s always exciting… Both for us spending night and day coding (and how many nights!) both for all our users. If you happen to walk down the street and see people using musiXmatch or when it happens to go to a concert and to see a group of boys and girls singing with...
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Here we go with new musiXmatch web site
Just 18 months young, and we’ve just returned home through the snow from our 2nd Midem.
We wanted to say how excited we are with the buzz around musiXmatch. With our 2,6 mln app users, we have built a damn good database of lyrics covering more than 30 countries and 18 languages. But size doesn’t matter if you don’t have quality and that’s why we love feedback, especially...
November 2011
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Former BMG Publishing CEO Nicholas Firth joins...
musiXmatch has appointed former BMG Music Publishing CEO and chairman Nicholas Firth as chairman of its advisory board.
The move comes as the company announces it has signed up all of the major publishers to its site after closing a deal with Warner/Chappell and EMI Music Publishing earlier this month.
musiXmatch is building a fully licensed database of lyrics that other websites...
September 2011
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musiXmatch, The IMDB For Song Lyrics, offer now...
I don’t know about you, but I’m awful at remembering the lyrics to songs, and I often find myself turning to Google search to answer my lyrical questions — and frequently, to lose arguments. Apparently, I’m not alone, as “lyrics” is one of the most searched-for terms on Google. While a quick search is often all one needs to flick on the light switch, overall, lyric search remains a pretty...
August 2011
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musiXmatch Lyrics app launched on Iphone and...
Here’s an interesting fact for you – people search for ‘lyrics’ online in the US more often than they do for ‘sex’. musiXmatch brought this fact to our attention, and upon closer inspection it certainly seems to be true – indeed, ‘lyrics’ is the most common search term on Google in the US after ‘Facebook’.
With that in mind, musiXmatch must be onto a winner as the so-called ‘world’s largest...
July 2011
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Forbes.com : Turning Lyrics into a Business...
Jennifer Hicks
DANTE’S SOMA
Recently, I attended a Lorenzo Jovanotti concert in Perugia, Italy. I’m a long time fan of the innovative Italian rapper for over a decade. Even though he sings in Italian, over time I have come to know most of his lyrics. Not that I know what they all mean, but I know them. At the concert, thousands of us were singing with him at the top of our lungs –...
June 2011
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From Last.fm Blog : Lyric clouds, genre maps and...
One of the interesting things that sets even superficially similiar genres of music apart is their lyrical content. Last.fm tags can overlap to a great degree, but we were interested to see what the words can tell you about the subtler shades of meaning that go along with those tags. As usual around here, the best way to answer questions like these is by asking the data.
So I downloaded...
May 2011
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We're Back(ed): musiXmatch Closes 3.7 million USD...
For the last 18 months, musiXmatch has been committed to providing simple solutions for the music industry. We created musiXmatch out of the belief that searching for lyrics should be simple, and that developers should be able to easily integrate music lyrics into existing music applications, without having to worry about distribution rights.
Our philosophy is that feedback cannot be discussed,...
April 2011
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The Echo Nest Blog: The Million Song Dataset gets... →
echonest:
The Million Song Dataset is a great collaboration between Columbia University’s LabROSA and The Echo Nest where 1 million songs worth of data was packaged up in a research-friendly format.
This week, the organizers of the MSD added lyric data with our friends at musixmatch. It’s not…
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Copyright or Copywrong ? The mXm Escrow
Without a doubt the hardest practical problem to solve creating a legal music business online is getting your copyright ducks in a row. You people already in the music business will know what I’m talking about. If you’re a developer just getting started, read on, this is stuff you need to know about.
The universe of song publishing rights is an extraordinary mess right now, and nearly...
March 2011
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musiXmatch Tops the Billboard Charts with New...
Matching is our business.
You should be able to throw the lyrics of any song at our database and we should be able to match it with the correct track and artist. Period. Everything else is gravy. So, if you know anything about this business, We’re going to astound you with a little news flash.
We took every top 100 song on the official Billboard charts from 1946 through...
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Frank Denbow is The new musiXmatch hero : meet...
Let’s say you’re out somewhere and you hear a great song playing on the sound system but just as you’re getting into it, the tune ends. And now you’re singing the chorus to yourself and trying to figure out how to identify the song and artist. Here’s where our hero comes in. Frank is the creator of SongVoodoo. Send a simple mobile text message (SMS) of...
February 2011
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The Future of the Music Industry Starts Here
echonest:
The Echo Nest announced a partnership with Island Def Jam today that will finally bridge the gap between cutting-edge app developers and the most popular music in the world. First, a little background on how we got here…
A few months back at Boston Music Hack Day, I overheard some excellent developers — all of whom have built music apps you’ve heard of — passionately and intensely...
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Music Hack Day NYC 2011
generalassemblyblog:
General Assembly is thrilled to present New York’s first Music Hack Day—a full weekend of hacking (organized by John Britton) in which participants explore and build the next generation of music applications. For more information, please visit musichackday.org
January 2011
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Midem 2011, How Music is Changing: Long live the...
I’ve attended @Midem for the last 12 years and there’s one thing that’s still the “same”, Cannes has super vibes around entertainment and music and spending 2-3 days there is always cool. The sun helps and I love running on the Croisette early in the morning.
This year’s vibes were especially amazing. I’ll try to explain.
I attended very few panels; they tended to be...
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musiXmatch taps Universal Music Publishing Group,...
musiXmatch Launches Commercial Beta of the Largest Commercial Lyrics API, Provides Developers Worldwide Access to more than 5 Mln authorized Lyrics
CANNES, Midem – Jan 24, 2011, musiXmatch, the leading provider of digital lyrics solutions, today announced partnerships with BMG, Kobalt, Universal Music Publishing Group, and Sony ATV Music, giving musiXmatch the largest authorized lyrics...
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musiXmatch API moves from Alpha to Public Beta
The musiXmatch api team is pleased to announce that the Public Beta release is now available.
When musiXmatch api first launched we received a lot of attention from both corporate and small business about scaling our platform for a production environment with high peaks of traffic.
We always care about performances and stability and we keep working to develop a full scale monitoring platform and...
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API 1.0 at the end. Coming Out New API 1.1
As announced 3 weeks ago in these post we are going to shut down the 1.0 version of our Api.
The last day we grant the 1.0 api to be running is January 16th 2011.
There are still few of you using it, so please upgrade to 1.1 within this sunday and remember to fulfill the instructions about the copyright and the tracking pixel given here:
http://developer.musixmatch.com/wiki/track-lyrics-get
Thank...
December 2010
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Thank you musiXmatchers. We wish an OPEN and GREAT...
Dear musiXmatchers,
It’s been too long since our last update. We’ve been very busy shipping new features and content and there are tons of new developers hitting our API’s, so it’s definitely time to get back in touch. Please read the whole thing, even if it’s a bit long, because there’s a bunch of service-related news and updates that you need to know.
But before I write...
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Zeitgeist 2010 : Top Entertainment queries are...
2010 was another great year for a lot of music artists like Justin Bieber, Shakira, Eminem, Ke$ha and Lady Gaga. Most of the search queries on Google, in fact, were related to these artists.
Today Google unveiled the Top Searched Terms in 2010 on Google here
In the Entertainment Category here the top searched terms on Google :
The cool thing is that all this Artist related keywords...
November 2010
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musiXmatch Boxee HackFest : win 500$ + Boxee Box
If you haven’t been living under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard about the brand new Boxee Box, the top selling tech gadget on Amazon.com in November. Boxee is an open source media center and, with the release of the Boxee Box, they provide a seamless hardware/software platform for you to view, play and interact with your local media and stuff in the cloud.
The really cool...
October 2010
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Vote mXm as Best Music Startup @TheEuropas...
In this last year of living deep within our new startup — of eating, drinking, sleeping, working and playing musiXmatch — We have learned that we have 2 jobs. The first is building stuff, the second is rising above the noise to tell people about what we’ve built and why we’ve built it.
This note is part of the second job ;-)
We’re convinced that as we increase our visibility...
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musiXmatch @ SFMusicTech 12/06
Whew. I’m just catching my breath between two music hackdays (Barcelona and Boston), day to day operations and surfing a wave of email from businesses, artists and developers who have just found out about musiXmatch. But there’s no time to stop kids, it’s go go go…
I’m really excited to announce that we are supporting the next SF MusicTech Summit taking...
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Best mXm Synced Lyrics Hacks @MHD in Boston
Synced Lyrics with Soundcloud by Brahan
Alicia Keys - No One by musichackday
Foo Fighters - DOA by musichackday
These are both 2 great example of our fresh Lyrics Synced API we’ve just released .
In the next few days we’ll release some new exciting updates.
mXm team.
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mXm @MusicHackday in Boston
I just gotta say that building musiXmatch, the company, the team, the database and the API is even more fun (and harder work!) than I could have ever imagined. We had a truly awesome time at the Music Hack Day in Barcelona and are looking forward to a lobster-(rock&)-roll-filled time in Boston for the next #musichackday this weekend, 16-17th of October at Microsoft NERD....
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See you @ Boston MusicHackday
After an amazing MusicHackDay in Barcelona where we awarded with our 1,000€ prizes this 3 projects :
- VisuaLyrics , a new way of expressing lyrics by images
- MusicHackday Lyrics , share your lyrics on Facebook
- Websoundtrack , a Chrome Plugin for contextual Lyrics
mXm Team will now move on Boston Musichackday 16-17th October 2010
Stay tuned.
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Musichack competition officialy started
24 hours to build hugest music hacks based on the hugest Music API on the market : Last.fm, Bmat, musiXmatch, soundcloud, 5gig, etc We’re looking forward to see tomorrow who’s gonna win musiXmatch 1,000€ prize for best Lyrics API hacks. Stay tuned : http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasbonte/sets/72157625077502696/ mXm Team live from Barcelona
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Alpha Lyrics API will be released @MusicHackday in...
Courtesy of MusicHackday Hey music folks, We hope everybody had a great summer and that you’re ready for back to school! LOL But while you were on the beach, we spent the summer working… Amazingly more than 4,000 of you from all around the world sent us requests to be included in the private alpha release of our Lyrics API! Judging from your enthusiastic response, it seems...
September 2010
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Digital Lyrics and The Music Ecosystem
I began my journey with digital music 11 years ago, before iTunes was released, when the ringtone was the only music you could play on a mobile phone. I remember when Shazam was an IVR (interactive Voice Response) service before it became an app, ’cause no one was doing apps back then. Mobile handsets could not handle them.
Things have changed a lot over the years. Now the entire market is ...