HipHop Genealogy

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.

• genres.json

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

• meta.json
• wav

Utility Tools

• decompress.py
• build_artists.py
• categorize.py
• export_mat.py