Music Databases

MUMT621

Links

• Meta music database sites:
  • ISMIR: Datasets
  • CCARH: Digital Resources for Musicology
  • Music Corpora Registry
  • datasets (Alexener Lerch)
  • Wikipedia: List of online music databases
  • Wikipedia: Online music and lyrics databases
  • Wikipedia: List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries
• Themefinder
• RISM Online
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
• Choral Public Domain Library
• Museopen
• Aria
• MIDI databases, e.g.:
  • kunstderfuge.com
  • MetaMIDI Dataset
• Million Song Dataset, Lakh MIDI Dataset, Slakh Dataset
• McGill Billboard Dataset
• ASAP: Aligned Scores and Performances
• Online music stores (e.g., Grooveshark, iTunes, Rhapsody, Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, etc.) (a review fron 2014)
• Early Music
  • Cantus & Cantus Index
  • DIAMM
  • Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML)
  • Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae Electronicum
  • Scribe try: 2 1 2-2 (search engine by letters broken? 2006/01/04)
• Musedata
• Musipedia
• C-BRAHMS
• MetaBrainz Databases
  • MusicBrainz (2010: database of 560k artists, 830k release, 9.8Mtracks) stats content
  • AcouticBrainz
  • Cover Art Archive
  • CritiqueBrainz
  • ListenBrainz
• Discogs API
• SecondHandSongs API
• setlist.fm
• Wikipedia / DBpedia (2018: 123,000 2022: 158,895 music albums) / Wikidata (music metadata)
• MusicMoz
• MTG-Jamendo Dataset
• Freesounds (363,000 sounds / 5,000 hours); FSD50K (annotated Freesounds: 51,197 clips)
• FMA (Free Music Archive)
• Google / Magenta
  • YouTube-8M dataset (7M videos / 450,000 hours)
  • Audioset (2M videos / 5,800 hours)
  • NSynth (300,000 notes / 1,000 instruments)
  • MAESTRO (Piano MIDI & audio / 200 hours)
• Dig That Lick
• Weimar Jazz Database
• Wagner Ring Dataset
• Mulltitrack Datasets:
• MedleyDB (122 multi-tracks)
• Freischütz Digital Multitrack Dataset
• Cambridge-Multitrack-Dataset
• AAM: Artificial Audio Multitracks Dataset
• MoisesDB (music.ai)
• Japanese a cappella vocal ensembles
• MUSDB18
• MusicNet (330 freely licensed classical music recordings with every note labeled)
• CompMusic (non-Western music)
• IRMAS: a dataset for instrument recognition in musical audio signals
• Commercial databases:
  • iTunes (introduced 2001/01/09)
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Allmusic.com
  • last.fm
  • echonest / Spotify (2012: 1.5M artists, 30M songs) API
• Lyrics
  • Lyrics database list (Musicmoz)
  • sing365.com (400,000 songs)
  • Lyrics.com
  • Largest vocabulary in Hip Hop
• Visualizations
  • Music Machinery
  • Polygraph
  • Music History (go back in time)