We introduce the Million Song Dataset, a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks. We describe its creation process, its content, and… (More)
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We propose methods for unsupervised learning of text profiles for music from unstructured text obtained from the web. The profiles can be used for classification, recommendation, and understanding,… (More)
Record reviews provide a unique and focused source of linguistic data that can be related to musical recordings, to provide a basis for computational music understanding systems with applications in… (More)
It would be interesting and valuable to devise an automatic measure of the similarity between two musicians based only on an analysis of their recordings. To develop such a measure, however,… (More)
We present the query-by-description (QBD) component of “Kandem,” a time-aware music retrieval system. The QBD system we describe learns a relation between descriptive text concerning a musical artist… (More)
This chapter describes the progress of the Digital Government Research Center in tackling the challenges of integrating and accessing the massive amount of statistical and text data available from… (More)
The audio bitstream in music encodes a high amount of statistical, acoustic, emotional and cultural information. But music also has an important linguistic accessory; most musical artists are… (More)
The massive amount of statistical and text data available from government agencies has created a set of daunting challenges to both research and analysis communities. These problems include… (More)