SecondHandSongs
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Type of site | Online database of cover songs |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Owner | Discoversongs VZW |
| URL | https://secondhandsongs.com/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional, only for contributing or editing data |
| Current status | active |
Content licence | Academic use |
| Written in | PHP (Symfony), PostgreSQL |
SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative web site that maintains a global database of original works, cover songs, adaptations, and samples. Its website allows performers and curators to add songs and update their metadata.[1] It includes links to freely accessible recordings of the covers, and external identifiers for those works and performances in other databases.
As of 2021, it included roughly a million covers of 100,000 original works, and was cross-referenced by MusicBrainz.[2][3]
Data and uses
Data are contributed and edited by the active community, so the exact size of the database has changed over time. In 2007, the project included 60,000 covers.[4] As of 2020, it had reached a million covers.
Data schema and identifiers
Second Hand Songs includes a work ID for each work, and a performance ID for each cover of a song by a performer.
A work is an equivalence class of performances of the same underlying song. Each performer has at most one performance of a work in the database.
Derived datasets
In 2011, the Million Song Dataset project released a Second Hand Songs subset (an intersection of SHS and MSD data). At the time, this was the largest dataset of cover songs available for academic research.[5]
Later, it released the SHS100k dataset for machine learning, with 100k covers of 10k works.[6] This has since become a benchmark for cover-song identification.[7]
References
- ^ "Introduction to the database | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "Other Databases - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ Barrett, Lori (2007-09-30). "Pop Music: Blogs". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "The SecondHandSongs Dataset | Million Song Dataset". millionsongdataset.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ NovaFrost (2021-06-10), NovaFrost/SHS100K, retrieved 2021-07-04
- ^ "Papers with Code - SHS100K-TEST Benchmark (Cover song identification)". paperswithcode.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
External links
- Search interface for the SHS database
- Under the covers
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