AOTM-2011
This page contains the data and examples from the Art of the Mix playlist database.
AOTM-2011 spans the period from 1998-01-22 to 2011-06-17.
In all, it contains 101,343 unique playlists, each of which has had its songs matched to the Million Song Dataset (MSD). Approximately 98,000 songs were matched into MSD; please see the publication below for details.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email the author at brian.mcfee@nyu.edu.
Playlist data
- aotm2011_playlists.json.gz
- 101,343 playlists (50 M) [md5]
We provide the data in JSON format. The following Python code can be used to import the data.
import cjson
import gzip
with gzip.open('aotm2011_playlists.json.gz', 'r') as file_desc:
playlists = cjson.decode(file_desc.read())
The variable playlists will then contain a list of playlist objects.
Fields of Each Playlist
Going through the fields of P[0], we have the following:
- category
- A string describing the category of the playlist. There are about 40 unique categories.
- filtered_lists
- An array of contiguous segments ... (see original for full description).
- mix_id
- A unique numeric identifier for the playlist.
- playlist
- An array containing the original playlist data ...
- timestamp
- The time and date when the user uploaded the playlist.
- user
- A dictionary containing information about the playlist’s author ...
References
If you use this data, please cite the following paper: