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"Online music providers Napster and Rhapsody are the latest services to scrap The Echo Nest following Spotify&amp;#039;s takeover. Rhapsody International - which also operates Napster - said it was never completely satisfied using a third party for its music recommendations.  The move follows Rdio, who revealed it too would stop using The Echo Nest last week. &amp;quot;The Echo Nest has been a good partner for us, but we have never been completely satisfied with recommendations from any third party,&amp;quot; Rhapsody International&amp;#039;s senior vice president of the Americas Paul Springer said. &amp;quot;As the number two music streaming service globally, we decided now is the time to invest heavily in personalization based on our experience as a pioneer in streaming music for over 13 years.&amp;quot; The Echo Nest currently provides music-related data to developers and media companies. Although Spotify pledged to keep the platform free to third parties, companies are weary of sharing their music data with a competitor. Its database holds some 30 million song fingerprints used for identifying tracks, which third parties use to offer recommendations and generate playlists. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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