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Through various places I have seen references to the echonest calculating timbre, but I don't see that in the current API. What gives?

EDIT: see here to see a lot of variables that I don't see in the current API http://www.cookinrelaxin.com/2008/04/processing-library-for-echonest.html

awegawef:

The timbre coefficients are part of each segment. Look at the result in the get_segment call and you'll see an array of timbre coefficents.

Hope this helps.

Paul

Thanks for the prompt reply, plamere. I'll go back and check it out.

Ok, I'm sorry, but I don't follow. When I run audiofile.sections, I get a list of AudioQuantum instances similar to this: AudioQuantum(kind='segment', start=0.000000, duration=0.148030) Could you specify how I can get the timbre coefficients?

You're asking for sections, you want segments-- different things. Try audiofile.segments .

Sorry, I meant to type audiofile.segments. I get a list of AudioQuantum instances like above.

Awegawef-- are you using pyechonest? I do

>>> audiofile = pyechonest.track.upload("filename.mp3")
>>> audiofile.segments[1]["timbre"]