Vienna Music Tech Meetup 2015-05-21

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

Thomas Lidy – tom.lidy@gmail.com

Vienna Music Technology

21 May 2015