I'm not sure if this would help any of the projects people are working on, but Arstechnica has an article about a million song dataset - not the songs, but the data, that's completely free for the taking. In total, it's currently 300Gb worth - but you can take only the portion you want.
>From the article: The dataset is "freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks," being analyzed by Columbia University's Lab ROSA, aka the Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio. And the Holy Grail is to use this treasure trove to develop a new generation of Music Information Retrieval services. Here's a link to the article: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/million-song-dataset-take-it-its-free.ars And here is a link to labrosa at Columbia University: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/ -- eganders ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eganders's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86173 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
