Public datasets/resources
- Freesound: aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
- The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.
- A list of MIR datasets.(compiled by
Georg Holzmann).
- Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials.
Other Recommended Links
- Sound and Music Computing Portal of the Sound and Music Computing research community.
- PhD Theses and Doctoral Dissertations Related to Music Information Retrieval (compiled by Elias Pampalk).
- The Tools We Use in MIR (compiled by Paul Lamere).
- Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
- SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
- Reactable Systems:
- Voctro Labs
- Music Cognition U. is designed and maintained by a group of music cognition research scientists to communicate their latest findings to the public, to students, public policy makers, and other researchers.