It's just that the complexity is only apparent to people familiar with the hypothetical revolutionary rhythm.Īt the same time, people familiar with the new music will look back at the old music and be incredibly bored. You'd also see people who missed out on the year complain about how bland the new rhythms are. If you now tried to naively measure the amount of rhythmic complexity per song by counting percussion hits or similar, you'd see complexity take a nosedive. The songs are rep-resentative of recent western commercial music. The MSD contains metadata and audio analysis for a million songs that were legally available to The Echo Nest. Then, once everyone knows it, artists start to mix it up by leaving out parts of it, leaving it implied, relying on listeners familiarity with the rhythm to make things work. The Million Song Dataset (MSD) is our attempt to help researchers by providing a large-scale dataset. Yeah, this is really the core issue, even within the music.Īs a thought experiment, let's say someone invented a brilliant revolutionary new complex rhythm. My guess based on the above is that it's mostly English-language music, mostly American - can someone who's worked with the data confirm/deny that? What I really wanted to know was if it was a worldwide-music dataset or a more narrowly focused one. For more technical details, see "dataset creation" in the "code" tab. The number of songs was approximately 8950 after step 1), step 3) added around 15000 songs, and we add approx. Challenge (MSDC) is a large scale, music recommendation challenge posted in Kaggle, where the task is to predict which songs a. A random walk along the similar artists links starting from the 100 most familiar artists songs with highest energy, lowest energy, tempo, song hotttnesss. Getting 'extreme' songs from The Echo Nest search params, e.g. Getting the songs and artists from the CAL500 datasetĤ. Getting the 200 top terms from The Echo Nest, then using each term as a descriptor to find 100 artists, then downloading as many of their songs as possibleģ. Getting the most 'familiar' artists according to The Echo Nest, then downloading as many songs as possible from each of themĢ. For anyone else who was curious about the song selection process:Ĭhoosing a million songs is surprisingly challenging.