WhoSampled offers an extensive database of songs, samples, covers, remixes, artists, and more. According to its website, it's now tracking more than 1.2 million songs and nearly 622,000 samples. That data is powering Spotify's latest features, like its upcoming music discovery tool SongDNA.
  • mrdown@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    361·
    4 months ago

    I hate the culture of startup selling themselves to big companies

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

      the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

      • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I dont blame them either, Id take the buyout if it set up all my employees with a few million

        Big if if i was a person who did any of this

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      It’s their dream to be bought and live long without working anymore. Of course not everyone dream, but the most common.

    • dan69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      This really does choke innovation, market share and is strongly considered market monopolistic behaviors.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    211·
    4 months ago

    We are the Spotify. Lower your webpage and surrender your songs. We will add your userbase and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Interesting. This will probably enable them to get significantly closer to their goal. I’ve tried their site a few times but it only had really mainstream, obvious samples. If Spotify can combine their song data with whatever system they have that isn’t just user-contributed, it’ll probably be significantly more useful.