MTG-DB: a repository for music audio processing

Abstract

Content-based audio processing researchers need audio and its related metadata to develop and test algorithms. We present a common repository of audio, metadata, ontologies and algorithms. We detail the hardware implementation, in the form of massive storage and computation cluster, the software and databases design and the ontology management of the current system. The repository, as far as copyright licenses allow, is open to researchers outside the music technology group to test and evaluate their algorithms.