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Exploiting Social Media for Music Information Retrieval

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This chapter will first provide an introduction to information retrieval (IR) in general, before briefly explaining the research field of music information retrieval (MIR). Hereafter, we will discuss why and how social media mining (SMM) techniques can be beneficially employed in the context of MIR. More precisely, motivations for the common MIR tasks of music similarity computation, music popularity estimation, and auto-tagging musicwill be provided, and the current state-of-the-art in employing SMM techniques to these three tasks will be elaborated.

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Notes

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    CDDBis a web-based album identification service that returns, for a given unique disc identifier, meta-data like artist and album name, tracklist, or release year. This service is offered in a commercial version operated by Gracenote [38] as well as in an open source implementation named freeDB [36].

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    It is not clear whether the four mentioned publications make use of exactly the same data set. In any case, the authors emphasise that they only extract meta-data from OpenNap, but do not download any files.

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    In the meantime, last.fmhas extended its API with a Geo.getTopArtistsfunction that returns the top-played artists in a particular country.

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Schedl, M. (2013). Exploiting Social Media for Music Information Retrieval. In: Ramzan, N., van Zwol, R., Lee, JS., Clüver, K., Hua, XS. (eds) Social Media Retrieval. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4555-4_20

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