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Reputation: 11

Measurement of Spotify Audio Features

I am currently conducting research on American pop songs using Spotify's audio features (e.g., danceability, tempo, and valence...). But, I couldn't find any documentation that contains details about how they measured the features. I know there's a brief description of the features. But, it doesn't tell about any the exact measurement. Could you let me know where I can find it?

Thanks.

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8-Bit Borges
8-Bit Borges

Reputation: 10033

The Echonest was a music data analysis platform acquired by Spotify, and its expertise is being currently used to power up Spotify recommendation tools.

Audio Features API endpoint extracts a more "High Level" analysis from audio and songs, whereas Audio Analysis endpoint extracts more "Low Level" and technical data.

Essentially, "High-level" features are more explicit and make use of clearer semantics -plain english, in order to be easily understood by the layman ("danceability", for instance), but it all comes from Low Level analysis, really.

Here you have some documentation, if you wish to dive deeper into the matter:

http://docs.echonest.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/_static/AnalyzeDocumentation.pdf

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