music services

Looking for the Holy Grail of Universal Song ID

I cannot think of a worse fate: hearing something worse than John Mayer when you have to click on a link that says John Mayer. (Consider clicking on a Google search result for your dentist’s office phone number and getting your ex-girlfriend instead.)

Brian Whitman, co-founder and CTO at The Echo Nest, lamenting the difficulties of music ID resolution in the wake of Facebook’s big music announcement