i Don't know what to talk about..

maybe i could do my talk on...

Music apis are cool

too Geeky

Exmouth market

interesting facts, but not enough for a whole talk

Bicycles

seemed too predicatable and maybe boring

focus

f**k it why not do all three...

there's enough facts to make it interesting, and if its' rubbish at least it might provide a laugh...

Music api's are cool

worked with them the past few years through various projects

musicbrainz id is essential

Musicbrainz is a metadata store about artists and there relations and gives you disambiguation data

this is a lot harder than it sounds

• Tchaikovsky
• beyonce/Beyoncé
• the Dave matthews Band
• !!!

so what data can i get with this magical id?

• wikipedia entry find out who they are
• Discogs get there discography
• LyricFind lyrics to there songs
• Songkick find out when there playing
• Twitter see what there saying
• Facebook artists find out who likes them
• Spotify listen to there music
• echonest get analysis of the music
• bbc reviews find reviews
• 7Digital buy there music

Yeah yeah, very good, so show me some examples

• don't know what to see at sxsw, sorted
• bored of your own music, see what the beeb has to offer
• want to download some music, why not make it more fun

Nice examples but how is this getting used in real life

BBC Music

Songkick & Spotify

Moodagent

Nice examples but how is this getting used in real life

BBC Music

Songkick & Spotify

Moodagent

So i've ran out of Mintersting things to say about music api's

so let's give you some of the interesting facts about the other things i looked at

exmouth market

i bought a book on the area,the most interesting thing that happened around here actually happened in a pub..

Ok move on

actually bugger it, show them the john howard video, the fastest man on a bicycle 152mph, hopefully that'll make them laugh and you can sit down