Re: Calling all music fiends who have MBID tagged music collections!

2014-10-20 23:01 GMT+02:00 Robert Kaye <[email protected]>:

> Hi!
>
> We're getting a new project off the ground and need your help!
>
> MusicBrainz, along with MTG-UPF is working on a new project,
> AcousticBrainz. The goal is to compute audio features [0] and make them
> freely available for anybody to use for MIR research and to open source
> enthusiasts. We are generating audio features with the open source essentia
> [1] feature extractor system, which anybody can use and contribute to.
>
> We hope that this open collection of features with known feature
> extractors can be used by people to make lots of cool stuff. The
> AcousticBrainz data includes a lot of data that had to previously been
> licensed from expensive sources -- now this data will be open source! This
> data can also serve as the building blocks for anyone to build their own
> recommendation or music discovery system. Clearly this will take some time
> to get here, but this is the first step.
>
> We're hoping to get up to 1,000,000 scanned audio tracks by next week!
> We've 1/4 of the way there and we could really use your help to accomplish
> our goal.
>
> We need the help of anyone with audio files on their computers to help
> generate new data. You don't need to send us any audio, we just ask that
> you download our extractor and submission program.
> The only requirement is that your files are tagged with Musicbrainz IDs
> (this is how we identify the music). If you haven't tagged your audio
> collection yet, take this opportunity to download Musicbrainz Picard [2]
> and identify and rename your music collection. The feature extractor runs
> at about 20x real-time, that is about 10 seconds per 3-minute song -- sadly
> this is pretty slow, but it is going a very detailed music analysis!
>
> To get started, go here: http://acousticbrainz.org/contribute
>
> We have static builds for linux and we're working to release solutions for
> Windows and Mac very soon.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [0] http://acousticbrainz.org/sample-data
> [1] https://github.com/MTG/essentia
> [2] http://picard.musicbrainz.org/
>

Hello,

Is there any chance the Windows version will be ready before the deadline?

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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