Introducing Tuneform Mimir

We are excited to announce the release of our newest feature, Tuneform Mimir, a new music analytics application. With Tuneform Mimir, musical analytics for millions of tracks and Spotify Playlists are now just a search away.

Tuneform Mimir allows you to inspect the musical attributes of million of songs, for free, through an easy to navigate interface. Through our app, you can easily access information such as a track's tempo/bpm, what key it was composed in, its average loudness, and more! Additionally, you can also see this information at a glance for any playlist available on Spotify.

Track Analytics

Tuneform Mimir exposes the musical information for millions of tracks released by artists across the world. If your music is on Spotify, you can likely inspect your own music on this app too.

For each song, Tuneform Mimir shows you detailed information about the track:

• The Tracks Tempo - denoted in BPM
• The Key & Mode of the Track (For example A# Minor)
• The duration & time signature
• The loudness of the track (averaged over the whole track), in values ranging from -60dB to 0dB
• How it was recorded (in a studio or live), whether it's an instrumental or contains vocals, and whether the recording is acoustic.

Additionally, scores along a sliding scale between 0-100 for the following values

• Danceability - a score reflecting how danceable the track is, typically denoting the presence of a maintained groove and consistent beat driven by drums or other rhythmic sounds.
• Valence - denotes the mood of the track, where lower values indicate the track is more melancholy, sad or yearning, and higher values indicate the track is happier or exuberant
• Energy - where bright, exciting and loud tracks will score higher, and slower, more acoustic, tracks will score lower. High vs low score don't correlate with quality, and merely act as indicator of how energetic a track is.

All these stats combine to offer artists a fantastic educational resource into a wealth of music from across the globe. It offers useful reference points for artists seeking loudness targets for mastering, understanding how key and mode lend themselves to the mood of a track, and offer an easy starting point for remixers and cover artists helping to ensure their instrumentation is consistent with the original.

Spotify Playlist Analytics

One of our favorite features in Tuneform Mimir is the ability to take a look under the hood at the attributes of all the songs in a single Spotify playlist. When you inspect a playlist with the app, you're able to see charts with breakdowns of the different tempo's present in the playlist, the different key/mode combinations, the release type, the average loudness, and more for all the tracks.

This information can be used in different ways, whether you're an artist or a playlister. By grouping this information together, you can gauge your own music against the tracks in the playlist, and determine how well your track would fit in with the others already on the playlist. This is excellent for artists looking to submit or seek placement on playlists that accept submissions.

You can also identity trends within your genre by taking a look at genre-focused playlists that stay up-to-date, for example Rap-Caviar, curated by Spotify itself. By looking at this playlist, you can see the technicals of the beats that are trending at the forefront of hip-hop production.

Navigating the Application

When building Tuneform Mimir, we wanted the application to be extremely fluid and snappy to use, so we spent much of our time ensuring that navigation would easy to use, and help you find what you're looking for quickly.

Firstly, we built the navigation around the search functionality. When searching for a particular track or artist, input your search query by clicking the search icon in the nav bar. Your search results will appear grouped based on matching Artists, Albums, Tracks, & Playlists. If you search for a certain track, it will likely appear first in the Tracks result group. Then you'll be able to select more info to inspect its attributes.

Once you're looking at the attributes, you'll notice that it's easy to navigate to the album the track belongs to in order to inspect other tracks from the release. Additionally, you'll be able to visit the dedicated pages for the artists involved in the release, where their pages will show information such as their follower count on Spotify, and their popularity on a scale from 0-100 (higher indicates more popular). Additionally on the artist page, you'll be able to hop over to similar artists by looking at the related artists section of the page, where all the same information will be available. However, note that for new or extremely underground artists, the related artists feature may not be available.

Similarly, when inspecting playlists, you'll be able to visit the individual pages for each track that currently exists in the playlist. This can be done by navigating past the playlist analytics charts and looking at the tracks table near the bottom of the page. Additionally, you can inspect a curator's other playlists by clicking through on their profile, where you can visit the page containing all the public playlists they've created.