December 9, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BASED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LAUNCHES UNIQUE INTERNET RADIO SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATION WEBSITE
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS (December 9, 2008) — One Llama Media Inc., a Champaign, Illinios software company has launched the world's most comprehensive Internet Radio search and recommendation application that allows users to search by Artist. The browser application takes Internet radio listening to a new dimension by allowing users to search tens of thousands of Internet radio streams by artist, genre, geography and popularity. Stations listed in the search results are intelligently ranked by relevancy, and can be instantly streamed and saved as favorites.
The web application is backed by a sophisticated system for discovering Internet radio streams, and ingesting and analyzing playlists. One Llama Media's machine learning, and collaborative filtering technology ingests millions of data elements to create recommendations based on artist, track and playlist similarity. Currently the system analyzes over 36,000 stations streaming on the Shoutcast Network.
"Radio One Llama is a fun, easy way to expand the Internet radio audience and enhance the Internet Radio listening experience." Says Stuart Volkow, President of One Llama Media Inc. "We have leveraged our unique expertise in music search and recommendation and collaborative filtering to develop this product for a variety of web based and mobile platforms. We intend to be there with reliable, always-on, broadband access as the Internet radio audience continues to grow." Arbitron reports that 49 million Americans listen to audio over the Internet at least once a month.
"We have some of the most sophisticated machine learning and collaborative filtering algorithms in the industry that we use to index and infer similarity." Said Kris West, Founder and CTO. West, along with co-founders David Tcheng and Michael Welge, have a combined experience of over three decades in computer software development and applications that they bring into play as they embark on the highly complex semantic web challenges presented by Internet Radio.
March 17, 2008
ONE LLAMA LAUNCHES MUSIC SEARCH ON IPHONE
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS (March 17, 2008) — One Llama Media Inc., a leader in advanced music search, has announced the launch of its Apple iPhone web application today. Apple iPhone users can now discover new music and watch music videos on-the-go using the One Llama music search service. Users access the service by simply navigating directly to www.onellama.com from the web browser on their iPhone. Users can then search for artists and songs, find other similar songs, and watch the corresponding music videos from their phone.
"We have built this exciting application by integrating the One Llama music search technology with YouTube and Apple's iPhone using their published, open APIs", said Amit Sudharshan, Director of Product Development for One Llama. "We have mapped our music database of over 1.4 million tracks to online music videos. Now users can not only discover new music, but also where available watch the full length video. Thanks to Apple's mobile video capability our users can now enjoy One Llama from their desktop or their iPhone mobile device."
"We intend to continue to roll out new music applications using our core advanced music search technology", said Rob Schultz, President of One Llama Media Inc. "Our proven music search technology is currently being used by APM Music, the world's leading production music library, a joint venture of EMI Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing. We now want to enable consumers to have access to the technology directly in multiple ways", he said.
About One Llama Media, Inc.
One Llama Media is a leader in audio analysis, search and discovery systems. The company develops acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and collaborative filtering tools for music and video navigation, discovery and search. One Llama provides its software to online media aggregators, distributors, and stores interested in improving the way their customers navigate and search for audio assets. Additionally, the Company provides its tools direct to the consumer through its website, www.onellama.com for building and sharing music playlists. The Company is backed by IllinoisVENTURES and the I2A fund and is located in Champaign, Illinois. For more information, please go to www.onellama.com
Contact:
Rob Schultz for One Llama Media
217-239-1950 // raschultz@onellama.com
www.onellama.com
Schwartzman PR for APM Music LLC
Jonathan Zaleski
310-446-8310 // jzaleski@schwartzmanpr.com
www.apmmusic.com
July 16, 2007
EMI, APM MUSIC AND ONE LLAMA PARTNER TO ENHANCE MUSIC SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGIES
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS (July 16, 2008) — One Llama Media Inc., a leader in advanced music search, has entered into an agreement with APM Music, the world's leading production music library, a joint venture of EMI Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing, to work with APM to develop and provide a new software solution for improving advanced music searches and automated music classifications. The software utilizes One Llama's proprietary acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and trainable machine learning algorithms. APM and EMI will offer the software to their customers to provide them with advanced methods of navigating and searching for music in the APM library of over 250,000 musical recordings.
The combination of track classification and advanced music search solutions will dramatically improve EMI's and APM's ability to deliver the right music to each of its customers worldwide, while improving workflow and making the search experience faster and more accurate.
"Finding the right music for a project is a time consuming and inexact science for customers today," said Adam Taylor, President of APM Music. "One Llama's classification technology will enable us to more accurately and dynamically classify our collection, bringing the search and browse experiences for our clients to an entirely new level. Additionally, One Llama's search technology will enable our customers to search for music based on audio similarity giving production clients an entirely new way to quickly find the music they need."
Jim Brady, EVP of IT for EMI said, "Technology has become an essential part of maintaining our leading position in the production music industry. One Llama's technology is unique in the marketplace and will be a benefit to our customers worldwide. Our relationship with One Llama helps APM and EMI provide the most cutting-edge technology and services to our customers available anywhere."
One Llama's technologies enable innovative search methods based on proprietary feature extraction techniques that take into consideration a wide variety of physical acoustic and psycho-acoustic factors to determine musical similarity. Advanced machine learning algorithms are used to model what a track sounds like and how similar it is to other tracks. The classification application enhances music search accuracy in commonly used applications such as iTunes and other digital asset management systems. The system combines its custom validation and training system with the knowledge and experience of APM's and EMI's subject matter experts to continually improve the accuracy of results. The results are then embedded into EMI's and APM's audio files in a variety of digital music formats including MP3 and BWAV.
"We are excited to be working with APM Music and EMI Music on one of the greatest collections of music in the world," said Rob Schultz, One Llama's CEO. "Being selected by the world's leader in production music validates the richness and uniqueness of our technology. This is a perfect application of our core competencies and our ability to handle the very large dataset opportunities that the APM and EMI music collections present."
About One Llama Media, Inc.
One Llama Media is a leader in audio analysis, search and discovery systems. The company develops acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and collaborative filtering tools for music and video navigation, discovery and search. One Llama provides its software to online media aggregators, distributors, and stores interested in improving the way their customers navigate and search for audio assets. Additionally, the Company provides its tools direct to the consumer through its website, www.onellama.com for building and sharing music playlists. The Company is backed by IllinoisVENTURES and the I2A fund and is located in Champaign, Illinois. For more information, please go to www.onellama.com
Contact:
Rob Schultz for One Llama Media
217-239-1950 // raschultz@onellama.com
www.onellama.com
Schwartzman PR for APM Music LLC
Jonathan Zaleski
310-446-8310 // jzaleski@schwartzmanpr.com
www.apmmusic.com
