Influence of AI on Music Tech: Shazam, Pandora and Musiio with Hazel Savage

Learn how companies like Musiio are making tools that automatically tag tracks with descriptive data, like: mood, genre, tempo, key, instrument and energy. A human might painstakingly tag a few tracks or even a few albums, but what about hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of tracks? Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do what it does best: automating the tagging process.

We speak with Hazel Savage, music tech lifer and the Co-founder and CEO of Musiio. We trace Hazel’s storied career from her playing in a punk band and working in a London HMV to launching her own Singapore-based Musiio with key stops along the way.

Hazel joined a young Shazam as employee number 25, pre-smartphone when you dialed #2580 and paid £0.50 per search (UK-only at the time), mostly to buy the ringtone. After a stint in Sidney with Universal Music, she joined Pandora, another true pioneer in music tech. In many ways, Hazel’s career trajectory reflects the journey of the music industry, from album sales in the record store to sophisticated high tech software. Try Musio’s demos and learn more at http://www.musiio.com