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For anyone interested in the Raw Audio Models section of that articles, there are some fun endpoints[1][2] from the Echonest API that provide those models.

They've moved over to the Spotify API since I last had a play, but it's great that they still provide them.

You can get the audio breakdown of a track, as well as a summary of the track features including fun stuff like "danceability" and musical positiveness ("valence"). Radiohead's "Fitter, Happier" was low on both of these points if I remember correctly.

[1]: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-audio-features/

[2]: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-audio-analysis/



I also wanted to nitpick this part of the article -- the neural network isn't determining the audio features; these are all hand-engineered features developed by The Echo Nest.

The neural network is trained to mimic collaborative filtering vectors from raw audio. It's a separate model from time signature, key, mode, tempo, loudness, etc.




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