(by NT Balanarayan & Vikas SN) Times Internet's music streaming website Gaana has opened up its developer platform letting developers access more than three million songs from its catalog to create apps. The site is now asking developers to submit app concepts before they are given an API access key. This is the same initiative that Times Internet CEO Satyan Gajwani had said in November last year at the Nokia Music Connects conference. He had mentioned that they will be working with developers to use Gaana’s music library as a base. Gaana mentions that the platform was previously available for select partners only. For instance, its online karaoke feature Singalong which was launched in June last year in collaboration with Karaoke Garage were built using the same APIs. Similarly, its group TV channel Zoom allowed users to access playlists created by their favorite celebrities on Gaana.com, which were powered using these APIs. What APIs are available Gaana will offer three types of APIs - Meta Data APIs that developers can use to sort tracks to see most popular tracks, hot songs, recommend songs based on the one that is playing right now, view song details, view list of popular artists, list of artists, all songs by an artist, artists details and info. It also allows developers view songs of a particular genre, its details and artists who are associated with a genre, among others. User Data APIs which allows developers to access user information like favorite songs, recently heard songs and recent user activity among others, manage…
