MagnaTagATune

This is the wiki page for the MagnaTagATune Music Database.

An excerpt of the database is now available for the students with related projects: http://mi.soi.city.ac.uk/stud/data/magnatagatune/. There is a Sencha Touch example for how to access this password protected data (see below)

Structure
The audio are binned into 16 shards (directories numbered 0-9a-f), the sharding key is artist + album name. This binning can be used as a standardized, pseudo-random way of assigning songs to cross-validation folds, ensuring that songs from the same album, or excerpts from the same track are not assigned to both the training and testing sets.

Tags
There is also tag information for the audio. This is a list of all tags available:

Moreover, the specific tag annotations to the songs can be found here: Magnatagatune associated tags

Copyright
You can use the student password for having a look and listen to the music. '''Please keep in mind that all of the data is copyrighted and just available for research purposes. Contact Daniel Wolff to gain a password suitable for the implementation within your game'''

This data is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License]. This enables the distribution of this package for a non-commercial, research use. The audio clips are excerpts of original work released by numerous artists under a similar license, allowing the present non-commercial redistribution/repurposing.

Problems and Solutions
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