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Collection Software, E-Resource FMA : a dataset for music analysis Free music archive

[ Small version of FMA data ]

More Resources

[ FMA git repo ]
[ FMA metadata ]

About this Item

Title

  • FMA : a dataset for music analysis

Other Title

  • Free music archive

Names

  • WFMU (Radio station : Montclair, N.J.)

Created / Published

  • 2017-

Headings

  • -  Musical analysis

Genre

  • Sound recordings

Notes

  • -  The full dataset includes over 100,000 ful length MP3 audio recordings, and truncated files. There are four .csv metadata files that include: track-level information (such as ID, title, artist, genres, tags and play counts), genre IDs, data generated using LibRosa (a package for music and audio analysis), and data generated by echonest (applicable to a subset of the records). A published paper is a single PDF document, and code (notebooks and scripts) that have been developed for interacting with the dataset and metadata files. The Library is currently only able to provide dowload access for the smallest version of the dataset. Visit the GitHub archive in order to download the larger versions.
  • -  Description based on GitHub page, Sept. 25, 2018.

Medium

  • dataset

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018655052

Rights Advisory

  • The majority of the audio in the FMA is licensed as either Creative Commons or Public Domain, while a smaller portion are under less common licenses. The code is available under the MIT license, and the paper and metadata files are released under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Wfmu. FMA: a dataset for music analysis. 2017. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655052/.

APA citation style:

Wfmu. (2017) FMA: a dataset for music analysis. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018655052/.

MLA citation style:

Wfmu. FMA: a dataset for music analysis. 2017. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018655052/>.