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The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio...
Its purposes are:
To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ...
To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research
... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

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http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/

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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 The Echo Nest's API
  • To help new researchers get started in the MIR field

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<p>The <b>Million Song Dataset</b> is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. </p> <p>Its purposes are: </p><ul> <li>To encourage research on algorithms that scale to commercial sizes</li> <li>To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research</li> <li>As a shortcut alternative to creating a large dataset with The Echo Nest's API</li> <li>To help new researchers get started in the MIR field</li></ul>