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The Echo Nest has indexed the Free Music Archive catalog, integrating the most incredible music intelligence platform with the finest collection of free music.

The Echo Nest has been called "the most important music company on Earth" for good reason: 12 years of research at UC Berkeley, Columbia and MIT factored into the development of their "musical brain." The platform combines large-scale data mining, natural language processing, acoustic analysis and machine learning to automatically understand how the online world describes every artist, extract musical attributes like tempo and time signature, learn about music trends (see: "hotttnesss"), and a whole lot more. Echo Nest then shares all of this data through a free and open API. [read more here]

FMA's library of 40,000 free & legal music files have now been analyzed by the Echo Nest and made easily accessible to the developer community through a common Artist, Track, and Album ID system. Licensing information is included as part of the API, and so developers working in the Creative Commons sphere now have an incredible pool of curated audio to draw from for their noncommercial music applications.

Combining The Echo Nest's music intelligence tools with the FMA's curated approach opens up exciting possibilities for interactive music applications and new music discovery. For example, the Echo Nest's sandbox documentation describes how to query for artists who share music via the FMA and are similar to Radiohead

>> Read More About FMA + Echo Nest for more information about how to access this wonderful resource

The Echo Nest presents as part of WFMU's RadioVision Festival NYC, as part of the October 30th "Reinventing Radio" Hack Day along with the FMA and Zeega, an open-source html5 platform for digital storytellers -- RSVP here

Free Music Archive artists who wish to participate in the open sharing of their works now have a direct line to video producers through Vimeo. The classy video-hosting site is utilizing the Free Music Archive's API to index the video-safe portion of our library (i.e. Creative Commons tracks that don't have the "NoDerivatives" clause) as the free option in their "Music Store".

Vimeo is the go-to resource for creative independent video producers, and its community exists specifically to support noncommercial artists, so this is an exciting moment that will help those of us who share our music under these licenses to expand our reach. 

From Vimeo's announcement:

As many of you know, finding music for your videos can be somewhat... well, painful. Licensing music on your own can be confusing and finding good free music can take forever. Many of us here at Vimeo are video creators or filmmakers as well and we experience these frustrations on a regular basis. So, we decided to do something about it.

The majority of FMA music is pre-cleared for noncommercial use only, so it might sound strange for free music to be included in something called a "Music Store" alongside paid music from Audiosocket. But for many artists, free noncommercial sharing is part of a broader promotional strategy, and leads to lucrative commercial opportunities. We always love to hear from FMA artists about the cool collaborations that result when video producers discover their music on the FMA -- viral videos that reach 2 million views, commissioned scores for new documentary films, the mobile app soundtracks -- so please chime in if you have a story to tell.

Vimeo introduced Creative Commons licensing for video last summer, so we've already seen some inspiring video projects powered by CC music from the FMA educational projects, travelogues, time lapses, recipe-sharing, and science videos to the immensely popular cute animal videos. We look forward to the works that this bridge between the CC Music Community and the CC Video Community will inspire.

It sounds like the Music Store is going to continue to evolve, so if you have feedback you can leave a comment here.