Rhapsody has ended its relationship with The Echo Nest after the music intelligence company was acquired by Spotify earlier this month.

The move follows on from Rdio, who also dropped the service a few weeks ago.

Chief product officer and SVP of the Americas for Rhapsody Paul Springer said the decision was based on being “unsatisfied with recommendations from any third party”.

“While it may be the case that Rhapsody only trusts its own users' usage data, the data ...