This is a Java client API and assorted tools and helpers for the Echo Nest API (at developer.echonest.com). This client works with Version 4 of the Echo Nest API.

Note - if you want to work with Version 3.0 of the Echo Nest API, you should use Version 3 of the Echo Nest Java API

Table of Contents

• The Echo Nest API Overview
• Getting Started
• Code Examples

The Echo Nest API Overview

The Echo Nest API is divided into two sets of methods: Artist methods and track methods.

Artist Methods

Some of the Echo Nest artist capabilities:

• get a list of the hottest artists
• search for artists
• get news about an artist
• get reviews about an artist
• get blogs about an artist
• get urls for an artist
• get video for an artist
• find audio for an artist
• find familiarity and hotttness of an artist

Song methods

Some of the Echo Nest track capabilities:

• Search for songs
• Get info about a song including:
• audio summary
• audio
• a detailed audio analysis
• song hotttnesss
• artist hotttnesss
• artist familiarity
• artist location
• Find similar songs

Getting Started

• Download the latest release
• Unzip the archive
• Add the jEN.jar file to your CLASSPATH
• Browse some of the code samples
• Get an API key from developer.echonest.com
• Browse the Javadocs included with the distribution

Code Examples

Browse some of the code samples