

Interested parties can click here for the code and instructions on how to use the dataset. fthierry, Brian Whitman, Paul Lamere The Echo Nest Somerville, MA, USA fbrian, ABSTRACT We introduce the Million Song Dataset, a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a. Ellis Columbia University LabROSA, EE Dept. The Echo Nest music intelligence platform is also powering MTV's Music Meter, Mog and Thumbplay and also recently announced a development deal with Island Def Jam. THE MILLION SONG DATASET Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Daniel P.W. The dataset contains release year information for 515,576 of the MSD songs. The site is being hosted by InfoChimp and funded by the National Science Foundation. Hit Song Prediction Dataset This dataset is based on the Million Song Dataset (MSD), which contains one million songs that are representative for western commercial music released between 19. While the dataset contains detailed information there are no audio files however, the collection includes mapping to 7digital's library of 30-second samples, which will allow researchers to hear and test their technologies. The reason behind the release of this massive database is to give back to the music information research community and allow others to pursue music mapping ideas without having to "reinvent the wheel" each time by painstakingly building smaller sets of data. This freely available resource contains information on a million contemporary popular music tracks for which the Echo Nest provided music analysis and metadata The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform and Columbia University's LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio) today announced the launch of the Million Song Dataset. It just got a whole lot easier to deconstruct a million songs.
