S5 E4: Hazel Savage, Musiio

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England. She attended university, and studied politics. She's played the guitar since she was 13, and started out as a self taught player. Her first guitar was a cherry red Fender Telecaster, followed by a Fender Cyclone and a Danelectro Hodad. Recently, she's started getting more into collecting, grabbing a Gibson Goddess for her collection. She used to play in an all girl punk band in London, called Ginkinta. She worked part time in HMV, a records store, stocking shelves, putting CD's out, and gaining an understanding of the music world from the perspective of a customer. And I find it interesting that she doesn't miss the physical music products, as a large collection of CD's tend to weigh a lot and are hard to move across the country. After joining an incubator, she was paired up with her now co-founder, who is deeply technical and well versed in AI. Combined with her extensive knowledge of the music industry, they set out to change the face of music... and the fingerprints found inside it. This is the creation story of Musiio. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I've got us access to about 200,000 tracks, and with that initial set of tracks, we would drop one track as like a seed track into the database, and we would just ask the AI to pull the most similar tracks based on the fingerprint.
0:21.6	Back then, I think we had to wait a whole 30 minutes to see the results.
0:25.6	So I think we sort of set it running and went out for lunch.
0:28.6	And when we came back, we found that the 10 tracks that it pulled back as a playlist were fantastic.
0:34.6	And I was like, oh, wow, this really works.
0:39.5	My name's Hazel Savage and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Museo.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Hazel Savage is paving the way
1:07.8	to automated music tagging and search through the power of AI.
1:13.7	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.8	Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England.
1:23.2	She's played the guitar since she was 13 and started out as a self-taught player.
1:27.7	Her first guitar was a cherry red Fender Telecaster, followed by a Fender Cyclone and
1:32.2	a Dan Electra Hodad.
1:33.8	Recently, she started getting more into collecting, grabbing a Gibson goddess for her collection.
1:39.0	She used to play in an all-girl punk band in London called Jin Kinta.
1:43.6	She worked part-time at HMV, a record store,
1:46.0	stocking shelves, putting CDs out, and gaining an understanding of the music world from the
1:50.3	perspective of a customer. I find it interesting that she doesn't miss the physical music products.
1:56.0	From her point of view, a large collection of CDs can weigh a lot, and are hard to move across the country.
2:02.3	After joining an incubator in Singapore, she was paired up with her now co-founder, who is deeply
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