In the run-up to the Buma Music meets Tech Award at Noorderslag 2015, an update to our music discovery demonstrator Streamwatchr has gone live. An improved interface that is easier on your device’s battery life, some new functionality and a Twitter bot called @lyricswatchr are the most important ingredients of the update.
Category: Demos
Going out with Streamwatchr
A few weeks ago I visited a local high school as part of a series of efforts to get more high school kids to maintain an interest in computer science and possibly study the subject in university. I gave a sneak preview of a new version of a demo that we’ve been working on with…
CIKM 2013 paper on the world’s playlist online
“Inside the world’s playlist” by Wouter Weerkamp, Manos Tsagkias and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. In the paper we describe Streamwatchr, a real-time system for analyzing the music listening behavior of people around the world. Streamwatchr collects music-related tweets, extracts artists and songs, and visualizes the results in three ways: (i) currently trending songs and…