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Designing outstanding smart radios and interfaces.
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www.musicovery.com
Presents SmartPlayTM
The best playlist engine
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Want to listen to music, but… you need to:• think about a playlist• know artist names and song titles• build playlist• type characters (to search and built playlist)• use interfaces that look like:
Any better way ?
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So, what does SmartPlay do ? SmartPlayTM, the first playlist engine:
•Playlists based on moods, artists, songs, sub-genres, decades,…
•Take into account a wide range of parameters: acoustic, semantic, social and individual preferences and behavior.
•Be powered by BOTH musical characteristics AND the tastes of each user
Collaborative filtering
Taxonomy classification
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How does SmartPlay work ?
Acoustic attributes
Semantic attributes
Highly relevant playlists
Community
preferences
Charts and trends
tempo (bpm), instrument…
mood (calm), genres (new
wave), themes
(Christmas)
Individual preference
s
co-occurrence of
listeners preferences
by region, real time, emerging, saturing
music preferences and listening
history
Playlist generation engine
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Modular software engineThe various components of the engine can be used separately to:
•provide ‘similar to’ recommendations: artist or song (like Pandora)
•run searches: acoustic parameters, genre, decade,…
•charts watch: songs in demand or in saturation
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Musicovery Technology history
2004
InterfaceData
2006
2007
2010
2011
2012
2009
N°1 Music/mood
Research on acoustic
descriptors Launch of mood webradio
Personalisation and charts First phone app
(Symbian)Smart artist
radio First iPhone appOptimised web
UILaunch of Musicovery
Lab
Launch of SmartPlay™
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A global and a local tool
• SmartPlay is now available : US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Norway.
Additional territories on request.
• SmartPlay is built to adapt to local specifics :o It includes local artists for each countryo Genres, themes, mood are catered to local
language(s) and the local catalogue
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Origins of data
• Indexation by experts
• Automatic extraction technologies (semantic and audio)
• Listening patterns from Musicovery’s web-radio registered members
55 millions data points from all countries
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A plug-and-play solution• Web services
• Updated data in real time (24/24, 7/7)
• Streaming service
• Licensing and reporting can be handled
by Musicovery
• User Interfaces Client
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Music catalogue
• Comprehensive and exhaustive for Europe, North America and South Americao all genres and all timeso 86,000 artistso 160,000 songso Charts from 1960: US,
Canada, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Norway
• Continually growing
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Custom user interfacesBenefit from Musicovery’s
top expertise in UI design for the visualization of music, on the web and/or on mobile apps.
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Professional SLAs• SmartPlay runs on professional infrastructure :
o Front-end on Co-host on Bearstecho Algorythm, webservices and API on Bearstecho Back-end on Amazon Cloud Services
• SLAs:o Guaranteed 99.9 % uptime by infrastructure
supplierso Bandwidth: peak bandwidth at least 70% higher
than past top bandwidtho Computing capacity: peak capacity at 70% past
topo Network provider: Availability 99% on a rolling 30
days
• Support:o Customers (B2B partners and clients): 9-5 Monday
to Fridayo Consumer (B2C users): 24 hour email support,
answer in next working day
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Case study 1: Clear Channel
• For Clear Channel/IHeartRadio, the media group with the largest reach in the US: 238 million radios and TVs listeners per month in the US
• Providing similar artists for a wide artist database (60,000 artists) for their smart radio IHeartRadio.
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Case study 2: NSB
Client: Railway operator in Norway
Solution: Back office for a music streaming service on board
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Case study 3: BourjoisIndustry: cosmetics
Solution: Back office and UI for a worldwide campaign
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References
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Contact
Vincent CASTAIGNETCEO
MUSICOVERY Sarl 16 bis rue Mayet, 75006 Paris –
FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0)1 47 34 70 [email protected]
