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# Rdio & The Echo Nest Partner To Encourage Music App Development
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rdio-the-echo-nest-partner-to-encourage-music-app-development/
- Published: 2011-05-03T09:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-05-03T09:47:00.000Z
- Description: Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has partnered with on-demand streaming music service Rdio to open a catalog of 8t million licensed songs and data to app developrs. To showcase. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/05/rdio-the-echo-nest-partner-to-encourage-music-app-devel
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

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Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has partnered with on-demand streaming music service Rdio to open a catalog of 8t million licensed songs and data to app developrs. To showcase the partnership, they've released[ Music Maze](http://www.www.musicmaze.fm/?ref=hypebot.com), a steerable music streaming service that traces similarities between millions of artists.
  
  
Integration Rdio and The Echo Nest allows app developers to build mobile and web applications with access to licensed music and then to categorize, filter, analyze and manipulate the music discovery and lsitening experience. When a non-Rdio subscriber uses the apps, they get to hear 30-second clips.

Unique to this partnership, app developers can also receive revenue via Rdio’s LinkShare affiliate program which pays 2-3% of subscription fees or 7% of each a la carte song purchase.

he Echo Nest completed partnership [with 7Digital](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/09/echo-nest-7digital-partner-to-offer-developers-online-music-retail-platform-.html) last Fall.