Thank you!
There is a link to request an invite at mortardata.com -- if you'd like access, let us know. We just got a lot of invitation requests from this post, but we'll invite you as soon as we can.
And also, if you haven't seen musicmachinery.com, do check it out.
Wow, this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Show HN: 1M Song Dataset dev in 10 mins
by jacabado on Sunday November 06, 2011 @09:59PM
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I was just going through their archives trying to answer my question and found a great discussion on this post:
http://musicmachinery.com/2011/05/14/how-good-is-googles-ins...
There are some insightful comments from names I recognize from my research.
I'm starting my thesis on music information retrieval, just studying the related work for now. If anybody has any suggestion on the directions I could follow would be really welcome.
My initial idea would be to focus on playlist generation taking into account user's history and usage. So far I've seen a lot of related work exploiting song similarity, some cool work on music mood and some on assisted playlist building. I'm also not ruling out recommendation or discovery.