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In <tt>/usr/ccrma/media/databases/hiphop-gene/</tt> are the following files:
 
In <tt>/usr/ccrma/media/databases/hiphop-gene/</tt> are the following files:
  
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== Data Files ==
 
* artists.json
 
* artists.json
* build_artists.py
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A list of each artist in the dataset. Rather than extracted from tags in the mp3 file, they are hand-entered via <tt>categorize.py</tt> to ensure correct normalization.
* categorize.py
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* compressed
 
* compressed
* decompress.py
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Loosely organized directory of mp3/m4a/etc. files for the base data set. New data set examples go in here, to be sorted out by <tt>categorized.py</tt>.
 
* genres.json
 
* genres.json
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List of each possible genre in the dataset. Handwritten and used by <tt>categorize.py</tt> for manual genre entry.
 
* meta.json
 
* meta.json
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The main catalogue of metadata associated with each WAV file. Currently includes genre and artist(s) info, in addition to file paths of compressed/WAV versions of the audio data.
 
* wav
 
* wav
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Directory of uncompressed audio data files. Automatically populated by <tt>decompress.py</tt>
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== Utility Tools ==
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* decompress.py
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Convert files in <tt>compressed/</tt> to WAV format, and place them in <tt>wav/</tt>.
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* build_artists.py
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Add any new artists in <tt>meta.json</tt> to <tt>artists.json</tt> (normally not necessary as <tt>categorize.py</tt> should do this automatically).
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* categorize.py
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Search for new files in <tt>compressed/<tt> and request genre and artist information. Stores this all in <tt>meta.json</tt>.
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* export_matlab.py
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Export <tt>meta.json</tt> data into a format convenient for use in Matlab. Write filepaths to <tt>files.dat</tt> and genre + artist info to <tt>meta.dat</tt>. Each row in these files is one training example. Column 1 of <tt>meta.dat</tt> is the genre (an index into the list of genres in <tt>genres.json</tt>) and the subsequent columns indicate the presence of absence of a particular artist on that song (where column N is the N+1-th artist in <tt>artists.json</tt>).

Latest revision as of 04:13, 10 November 2013

In /usr/ccrma/media/databases/hiphop-gene/ are the following files:

Data Files

  • artists.json

A list of each artist in the dataset. Rather than extracted from tags in the mp3 file, they are hand-entered via categorize.py to ensure correct normalization.

  • compressed

Loosely organized directory of mp3/m4a/etc. files for the base data set. New data set examples go in here, to be sorted out by categorized.py.

  • genres.json

List of each possible genre in the dataset. Handwritten and used by categorize.py for manual genre entry.

  • meta.json

The main catalogue of metadata associated with each WAV file. Currently includes genre and artist(s) info, in addition to file paths of compressed/WAV versions of the audio data.

  • wav

Directory of uncompressed audio data files. Automatically populated by decompress.py

Utility Tools

  • decompress.py

Convert files in compressed/ to WAV format, and place them in wav/.

  • build_artists.py

Add any new artists in meta.json to artists.json (normally not necessary as categorize.py should do this automatically).

  • categorize.py

Search for new files in compressed/<tt> and request genre and artist information. Stores this all in <tt>meta.json.

  • export_matlab.py

Export meta.json data into a format convenient for use in Matlab. Write filepaths to files.dat and genre + artist info to meta.dat. Each row in these files is one training example. Column 1 of meta.dat is the genre (an index into the list of genres in genres.json) and the subsequent columns indicate the presence of absence of a particular artist on that song (where column N is the N+1-th artist in artists.json).