ABOUT

The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. 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.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Dataset

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

>1M items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Media

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music analysis

,

music information retrieval

SCOPE

not applicable

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Contour or Shape

,

Harmony

,

Lyrics

,

Melody

,

Rhythm

,

Timbre

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Data Dump

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Playable

,

Machine readable symbolic notation