This is not really a MSD post, but I just want to remind everyone of what we've heard for some time now: Google is coming soon into the music business!
And if, like me, you believe that iTunes needs some serious competition, that's good news! OK, they still have to sign with the majors, and that might be extremely difficult, but it's coming!
By the way, congrats again to Echo Nest for their deal with Def Jam!
All these news make large-scale music algorithms even more relevant. And, from a student point of view, I do hope that these companies will be hiring people with knowledge on these issues ;) or license our algorithms, that's fine too. And let's make sure that conferences like ISMIR serve as idea incubators for Google, iTunes, and the like.
Finally, this is totally unrelated, but how cool is this audio study!
-TBM
UPDATE 03/29/2011: Amazon is doing its own thing!
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