Category: Arts and Entertainment

For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns of raw data, including each song’s duration, beats-per-minute, songwriters, ...

This is a set of artist and genre tag data collected from Last.fm using the Audioscrobbler webservice during the Spring of 2007. The data consists of the raw tag counts for the 100 most frequently occuring tags that Last.fm listeners have applied to over 20,000 artists. Included are artist tags and genre related tags. An undocumented (and deprecated) option of the ...

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open music community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata, including information about artists, release groups, releases, tracks, labels and the many relationships between them. The database also contains a full history of all the changes that the MusicBrainz community has made to the music metadata. The music ...

Discogs is a community-built database of music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced, this is what Discogs strives to be. Here you will find monthly data dumps of Discogs Release, Artist, and Label data. The data is in XML format and formatted according to the API spec. License All material is in the public ...

From the perspective of game system designers, players’ behavior is one of the most important factors they must consider when designing game systems. To gain a fundamental understanding of the game play behavior of online gamers, exploring users’ game play time provides a good starting point. This is because the concept of game play time is applicable to all genres of ...