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

On 21/10/2014 08:27, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> 2014-10-20 23:01 GMT+02:00 Robert Kaye <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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?
And OSX version, I would like to promote this initiative, but the 1GB 
virtual machine is not a nice option for most, an eta would be helpful !

Paul

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