Music Search at the Scale of the Web: Tutorial at ISMIR 2009, Oct. 26th, Kobe, Japan

Tutorial AM 1 (10:00-13:00): MIR at the Scale of the Web
by Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research), and Michael Casey (Dartmouth College)
Abstract
In the last couple of years we have received access to music databases with millions of songs. This massive change in the amount of data available to researchers is changing the face of Music Information Retrieval. [...]

Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements

Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements: Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values
Ben Fields, Kurt Jacobson, Christophe Rhodes and Michael Casey
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Philadelphia, Sep., 2008
Paper 209 [PDF]
We have sampled the artist social network of Myspace and to it applied the pairwise relational connectivity measure Minimum [...]