Million Song Dataset

Link

millionsongdataset.com

Status

active

How they describe themselves

dataset

Blurb

The 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 APIs (e.g. The Echo Nest's)
• To help new researchers get started in the MIR field

The core of the dataset is the feature analysis and metadata for one million songs, provided by The Echo Nest. The dataset does not include any audio, only the derived features. Note, however, that sample audio can be fetched from services like 7digital, using code we provide.

Creator(s)

Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Daniel P.W. Ellis, Brian Whitman, and Paul Lamere

Code repository

github.com