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What is the expected delay between new tracks appearing on Rdio, and them being indexed by The Echo Nest?

In my application, I was calling artist/songs to get a list of songs for each artist, but because newer releases were missing (eg Memory Tapes, Cults), I switched to calling Rdio directly.

The Echo Nest / Rdio compatibility is a god-send, but the gap between new releases and Echo Nest resolution could cause problems (I noticed another thread having issues where certain IDs were missing).

What is the plan to deal with this?

Cheers

Peter

Peter - we have a weekly ingestion schedule for Rdio. Unfortunately, there have been a few missed weeks recently (due to a number of colliding circumstances). Rarely, we will miss ingesting a track. If you think we should have an Rdio track that we don't send us specifics. -- Paul

These albums were missing when I was testing:

Cults - Cults (Jun 7) Memory tapes - Player Piano (Jul 4)

There were some more recent releases missing too (understandably), but I would have at least expected these two to come up.

Hey there-

Is this still an issue? I've searched for some songs in the api and while they return results, they don't return rdio ids that I know are in the rdio catalog. I'd prefer to use the echonest api but am feeling I might also have to switch to calling the rdio api directly.

thanks

Same here!

Hey all - yes, the Rdio catalog is a bit stale. Updates coming soon. -- Paul

I'm having the same problem I think. Even something mainstream like Drake's Take Care seems to not have any associated rdio metadata.

Ex.

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/search?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&format=xml&results=1&artist=drake&title=take%20care&bucket=id:rdio-us-streaming

...returns an echonest result but no rdio metadata. rdio-US doesn't work either.

Is it possible there's something wrong with this query?

Hi 4edict - the query works fine with rdio-US. Be sure to add the bucket=tracks and limit=true parameter like this:

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/search?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&format=json&results=1&artist=drake&title=take%20care&bucket=id:rdio-US&bucket=tracks&limit=true

Paul