Muse is a cloud-based web application designed to help users get the most out of their music. Using The Echo Nest’s API, Muse gathers information about artists to present interesting statistics in a beautiful way.

Codename Muse works with The Echo Nest. See LICENSE.md for more licensing information.

Site: http://muse.patricksanders.net/

• Artist Information
  • Overview
    • Popularity
      • Combined metric of ‘hotttnesss’ and ‘familiarity’ presented graphically
    • Average Danceability
      • Based on danceability measure of the artist’s 15 most popular songs, presented graphically
    • Genres
      • A list of genres to which the artist’s music belongs, sorted by relevance
    • Similar
      • A list of links to pages for similar artists, sorted by similarity
  • Average song length
    • Average length of songs based on the artist’s 15 most popular songs
  • Blogs
    • Number of people blogging about the artist
    • List of five links to recent blog posts

• More artist information
  • Popular songs
    • “Listen Now” links for popular services (Spotify, Rdio, YouTube, etc.)
  • Metrics
    • Song length, tempo, energy, loudness, time signature, etc.
    • Other interesting information (based on community feedback)

• Platform: Google App Engine
• Language: Python 2.7.x
• External Dependencies:
  • App Engine API
  • The Echo Nest API (requires API key)
  • Twitter Bootstrap front-end framework (accessed via CDN)
  • jQuery 2.0.0 (accessed via CDN)

• Exception handling - need to handle these exceptions gracefully
  • Artist not found causes HTTP 500
    • Suggest artists similar to search term
  • Echo Nest API call timeout causes HTTP 500
    • Retry API call, present friendly message if call still times out
• Special characters in artist name can give unexpected results
  • Need to properly escape special characters, or change the way queries are handled