USPOP2002
| Domain | Music |
| Media | Audio |
| Size | |
| Instances | 8764 tracks |
| File Format | TXT |
| Creation Date | 2002 |
| Task | Retrieval, Classification, Recognition |
| Copyright | |
| URL | http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/projects/musicsim/uspop2002.html |
Description
A set of 706 albums and 8764 tracks from 400 artists, compiled by through CDs.
List of artists, albums and tracks available as meta-data lists (TXT files) via Website.
MFCC audio features also available.
No audio itself is distributed.
Quality
For generating MFCC features audio from CD recordings was used.
Source
The original collection of CDs was devised and purchased by Brian Whitman and Steve Lawrence while they were at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. The NEC Research Institute then generously donated them to LabROSA for use in academic Music IR research. LabROSA's work on music topics and collaboration with Columbia's Computer Music Center are supported by a grant from Columbia's Academic Quality Fund. LabROSA and the PI are supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238301.
Ground Truth Annotation
artists, albums and track title in .txt files.
Features
We distribute the MFCC feature files (about 12G) on a set of 3 DVDs to interested researchers. Contact dpwe@ee.columbia.edu for more information.
Further features extracted via http://the.echonest.com/ available from here:
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/pages/additional-datasets
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/sites/default/files/AdditionalFiles/uspopHDF5.tar.gz
Licensing / Copyright
provide a note (or link) about licensing, copyright and usage restrictions
Citation
A. Berenzweig, B. Logan, D. Ellis, B. Whitman (2004). A large-scale evaluation of acoustic and subjective music-similarity measures Computer Music Journal, 28(2), pp. 63-76, June 2004. (14pp)
D. Ellis, A. Berenzweig, B. Whitman (2003). The "uspop2002" Pop Music data set Web resource, available: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/projects/musicsim/uspop2002.html.
External Links
http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/projects/musicsim/uspop2002.html
