SecondHandSongs

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Second Hand Songs
SecondHandSongs.png
Type of site
Online database of cover songs
Available inEnglish
Founded2003
OwnerDiscoversongs VZW
URLhttps://secondhandsongs.com/
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional, only for contributing or editing data
Current statusactive
Content licence
Academic use
Written inPHP (Symfony), PostgreSQL

SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative website that maintains a global database of mainly cover versions of original works. It also contains information about adaptations and samples. The 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[]

SecondHandSongs 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 SecondHandSongs 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]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Introduction to the database | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  2. ^ "Other Databases - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  3. ^ "Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  4. ^ Barrett, Lori (2007-09-30). "Pop Music: Blogs". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  5. ^ "The SecondHandSongs Dataset | Million Song Dataset". millionsongdataset.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  6. ^ NovaFrost (2021-06-10), NovaFrost/SHS100K, retrieved 2021-07-04
  7. ^ "Papers with Code - SHS100K-TEST Benchmark (Cover song identification)". paperswithcode.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

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