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API Upgrade - Genre Radio and Genre Search

blog.echonest.com on 12/21/2012

Excerpt: We’ve just pushed out a new API feature allowing you to easily create smart playlists based on genre. With this feature, you can choose from one of the nearly 500 supported genres (from Acid House to Zydeco) and use it to create a playlist using our playlisting API. To show off this feature, we’ve created a playlist demo that will create a Genre Radio Spotify playlist for any genre. To create a Genre Radio playlist with the Playlisting API, set the playlist type to ‘genre-radio’ and set the genre parameter to the seed genre. Here’s an example call: Genre Search In addition to the playlist API, you can also search for artists by genre.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, EchoNest, Music