TunedIQ - Music Intelligence Engine
Advanced music intelligence for highly personalised search, recommendation and discovery.
Availability TunedIQ is an optional capability available to eligible Tuned Global customers. Discuss availability, deployment options and commercial packaging with your Tuned Global Customer Success Manager.
Overview
TunedIQ is Tuned Global's Music Intelligence Engine for customers that want to extend the platform's core Search, Recommendation and Discovery capabilities with a more highly personalised, next-level listener experience.
It combines proprietary Audio AI, specialist music analysis, catalogue intelligence and listener behaviour to build a richer understanding of both the music catalogue and each listener. TuneIQ’s intelligence is then applied across Tuned Global’s core search, recommendations and discovery capabilities, enhancing their relevance and personalisation,to help listeners find more music tailored to them and ultimately deepen engagement.
TunedIQ is integrated with the wider Tuned Global’s Music Cloud Platform. It can draw on catalogue metadata, rights and availability, audio-derived intelligence and listener interactions already managed within the service, rather than operating as an isolated third-party recommendation product.
Extending the core platform
The Tuned Global Music Cloud Platform includes core Search, Recommendation and Discovery capabilities. TunedIQ sits above and extends those capabilities for services seeking a higher degree of personalisation, richer music understanding and continuous behavioural learning.
Why TunedIQ?
A large catalogue creates choice, but choice alone does not create a compelling listening experience. The challenge is to surface the right music for each listener, at the right moment, while respecting the content available to that service and user.
TunedIQ is designed to help services:
- deliver more relevant search results and recommendations
- extend listening sessions through continuous, personalised playback
- make discovery easier across large catalogues in different languages and cultures
- increase engagement and support improved listener retention
- encourage deeper exploration of available content
- continually improve personalisation as more interactions are observed
The intelligence behind TunedIQ
TunedIQ does not depend on a single recommendation algorithm or one source of data. It combines several complementary forms of intelligence, each contributing a different view of the recording, catalogue or listener.
Figaro.ai Audio AI
Figaro.ai is Tuned Global's proprietary Audio AI technology, purpose-built to analyse music directly from the audio. It enables TunedIQ to understand characteristics of a recording that may not be available, consistent or sufficiently detailed in traditional metadata.
Figaro contributes:
- Genre classification
- Mood classification
- Audio similarity
Because this intelligence is derived from the recording itself, it can support relevant relationships and discovery even where behavioural history is limited.
Additional music knowledge
TunedIQ also uses specialist music-analysis technologies to add complementary musical attributes, including:
- BPM (tempo)
- Musical key
These inputs add further dimensions to similarity, recommendation ranking and playlist construction. They work alongside Figaro outputs rather than replacing them.
Catalogue intelligence
TunedIQ draws on the catalogue knowledge held within the Tuned Global’s Music Cloud Platform, including metadata, artist and release relationships, catalogue structure, rights and content availability. This allows the engine to consider not only how music sounds, but how recordings relate to the catalogue and whether they are appropriate for the relevant service, territory and user entitlement.
Listener intelligence
TunedIQ learns from listener interactions and behavioural signals. Depending on the implementation and data available, these may include:
- Listening history
- Searches
- Likes and favourites
- Playlist activity
- Recently played content
- Skips and completion behaviour
These signals help TunedIQ refine relevance over time and adapt recommendations as an individual listener's interests change.
How TunedIQ works
The different intelligence sources are brought together by TunedIQ to support personalisation and ranking across the Search, Recommendation and Discovery experience. The engine balances music characteristics, catalogue relationships, content availability and behavioural relevance rather than relying on any one input in isolation.
This approach allows TunedIQ to combine two important perspectives: understanding the music itself and understanding how each listener interacts with music.
Listener experiences
TunedIQ is offered as a single bundle of four integrated listener-facing experiences. They share one intelligence backbone, so improvements to the engine can benefit the complete TunedIQ experience rather than a single isolated feature.
Continuous Play | Continuous Play automatically extends listening after a playlist, album or queue has finished. TunedIQ selects relevant next tracks to create a continuous, personalised stream and reduce the likelihood that a listening session ends simply because the selected content has run out. |
Daily Discovery | Daily Discovery creates a fresh, personalised playlist for each listener. The playlist is refreshed regularly using the intelligence available about the music and the listener, supporting ongoing discovery rather than a static set of recommendations. |
Because You Listened - Artists | This experience surfaces artists related to those a listener already plays. It creates a natural path from a known artist to new or adjacent artists with relevant musical or behavioural affinity. |
Because You Listened - Tracks | This experience recommends tracks related to a recording the listener has played. It turns an individual track into a broader discovery journey by identifying suitable next listens at song level |
Benefits
More relevant search and recommendations | Higher engagement and longer listening sessions |
Easier music discovery | Improved listener retention |
More continuous, personalised listening | Greater catalogue utilisation |
Recommendations that evolve with their interests | A premium, differentiated user experience |
Platform integration
TunedIQ is integrated with the Tuned Global streaming platform and can be used across customer applications and API-led services. The precise implementation depends on the customer service, available catalogue, data signals, product design and commercial configuration.
Because it operates within the Tuned Global ecosystem, TunedIQ can work with the same catalogue, metadata, rights, availability and user-management context used by the wider service.
Suitable services
TunedIQ may be suitable for a broad range of music experiences, including consumer streaming, telecommunications, automotive, airlines, fitness and wellness, background music and other enterprise streaming services. Suitability will depend on the service design, catalogue, available listener interactions and the desired level of personalisation.
Availability
TunedIQ is an optional additional set of technologies available to Tuned Global customers. It extends the platform's core Search, Recommendation and Discovery capabilities for customers that want a highly personalised and advanced SRD experience.
Discuss TunedIQ with your Customer Success Manager
Availability may vary depending on deployment, service configuration, catalogue, data availability, licensing model and commercial agreement. Contact your Tuned Global Customer Success Manager to discuss suitability, availability, implementation and pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Is TunedIQ included in the core Tuned Global platform?
Is TunedIQ included in the core Tuned Global platform?
TunedIQ is an optional extension. It builds on the core Search, Recommendation and Discovery capabilities available within the Tuned Global platform.
Does TunedIQ require listener history?
Does TunedIQ require listener history?
Listener behaviour improves personalisation, but TunedIQ also uses audio-derived and catalogue intelligence. The precise experience will depend on the implementation and available data.
Can TunedIQ work with a partial catalogue?
Can TunedIQ work with a partial catalogue?
Potential suitability depends on catalogue coverage, available rights, usage volume and the desired recommendation experience. Your Customer Success Manager can assess the proposed deployment.
Does TunedIQ respect content availability?
Does TunedIQ respect content availability?
TunedIQ operates within the Tuned Global ecosystem and can use the catalogue, rights and availability context applied by the service.
How is TunedIQ enabled?
How is TunedIQ enabled?
Implementation, availability and commercial packaging are agreed with Tuned Global based on the customer service and deployment requirements.
Summary
TunedIQ brings together proprietary Audio AI, specialist music analysis, catalogue intelligence and listener behaviour in a single optional Music Intelligence Engine. It extends Tuned Global's core Search, Recommendation and Discovery capabilities to deliver a more personalised experience across search, continuous listening and music discovery.
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