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Entrepreneurs and music enthusiasts Peter Berg Steffensen & Mikael A. Henderson founded Moodagent (then under the company name Syntonetic Media Solutions) in 2001 to create an intelligent system that reads the inherent musical and emotional characteristics of each individual track, and to string them together in playlists that matches the style, tempo and current mood of the listener.
After Spotify's launch, new competing services began to emerge in the North American market, including Beats Music—which was backed by headphone maker Beats Electronics, Microsoft Groove Music Pass (formerly Xbox Music), [45] Amazon Music Unlimited, [46] and Google Play Music All-Access (a branch of a service also offering downloads and a ...
Music website that has established itself as a go-to platform for finding lyrics. Musixmatch: Lyrics Audio based music recognition and provision of song lyrics. Yes. SecondHandSongs: Covers User-generated database of covers and samples of songs, with links to public recordings. >1,100,000 performances >100,000 works Multilingual recordings.
In Spotify's apps, music can be browsed or searched for via various parameters, such as artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Users can create, edit and share playlists, share tracks on social media, and make playlists with other users. Spotify provides access to over 100 million songs, 5 million podcasts, and 4 billion playlists.
For example, in a software MP3 player for Windows, Android, or macOS, the desired tunes are typically dragged and dropped from the user's music library into the player's "edit or create playlist" window and saved. The idea of automatically generating music playlists from annotated databases was pioneered by François Pachet and Pierre Roy. [8]
PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. It is typically used by media players for streaming media over the Internet, but may also be used for playing local media. For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—for immediate or future use.
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Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 874 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 137 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.