MSD subset mp3 files

[Juhan Nam]

Hi all,

I am working on developing new audio features, which requires raw audio (such as wave or mp3 files).  To evaluate it on a large scale data, I am about to get 30-seconds mp3 files of the MSD subset (10k) from 7Digital, using a script that automatically download files.  However, it seems that there is some restriction in getting files in such a way:

http://developer.7digital.net/Developers/APIUsageGuidelines  (No. 4 in the guideline says, "Please don't attempt to scrape the content in an automated way using scripts as this might negatively affect the performance for other users and will get you banned").

Have someone tried to download a large number of files from 7Digital?  Or If you have already download a bunch of files (e.g. MSD subset) in some way, can you share them?

Thanks!

Juhan

[Thierry Bertin-Mahieux]

Hi Juhan,

there is this paper that is accepted but not published but that should come out at the next ISMIR conference in October (note that I have nothing to do with it) :

Facilitating Comprehensive Benchmarking Experiments on the Million Song Dataset
Andreas Rauber,  Alexander Schindler,  Rudolf Mayer
Vienna University of Technology

and I *believe* that's what the authors did.
We'll know for sure when it is published, but I guess you can already contact them privately to ask them.

Hope that it helps!
Thierry

Juhan

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[Juhan Nam]

Thank you, Thierry!  I will ask them how they got the mp3 files.

Juhan