Million Song Dataset | scaling MIR research - 1 views
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Janos Haits on 09 Mar 11The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. Its purposes are: To encourage research on algorithms that scale to commercial sizes To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research As a shortcut alternative to creating a large dataset with The Echo Nest's API To help new researchers get started in the MIR field