4.0 - More data, more data!

Good gracious, I just found some more data, the Nottingham Database, which is a collection of  ABC formatted music files. This format can be put into MIDI format and vice versa.

Of course I'm facing a problem, first of all, the specific data I want, MIDI with a lot of different genres, is not widely available. Therefore I have a couple of options:


  • Try to train on actual MP3/OGG/WAV/FLAC music files, which is going to take forever.
  • Although the FMA data set offers 30s samples of the whole collection of songs. 
  • NSynth is a collection of single instruments, which is mostly suitable for synthesizing intstruments and not especially for generating songs/music. 
  • The Nottingham Database, an ABC formatted data base.


The most suitable solution comes in the ABC formatted database, there is more to find and I'm currently tracking down more data. However, there are some caveits along the way. I have found papers using all of these data sets, therefore it is very likely that those papers have done a lot of the work I would have wanted to do. Although it also enables me to build on work from the past and iterate on the findings of other scientists.

Ideally combining all three of these to make a multimusical interpreting and sound/music generating algorithm would be awesome, unfortunately there is little time to finish the project. Focus is needed to come to a conclusion.

The theoretical framework is almost finished and I will upload it asap.

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