We have built a list of genres for MusicBrainz artists, based on editorial data entered
for bbc.co.uk/music.
You can download the dataset here:
This same data was also submitted to MusicBrainz as tags, for example: Rock and Indie.
This is a temporary site for apps, data and feeds from BBC Audio & Music Interactive for Mashed 2008.
All apps, data and feeds are provided as is and with no support.
Slides for 2008-06-21 presentation are here: audioandmusic_mashed08.pdf.
Live now playing data for Radios 1, 2, 1Xtra and 6Music featuring track information, MusicBrainz artist IDs and programme identifiers for /programmes.
Point your XMPP pubsub client at pubsub.hug.hellomatty.com you'll find a node for each of our national stations: /home/hug.hellomatty.com/radio1/nowplaying, /home/hug.hellomatty.com/radio2/nowplaying etc...
Read more about this on the BBC Radio Labs blog:
We've been matching the tracks played on-air
This let's us produce a term space of which artists played on each brand, and the number of times that they were played by that brand. Use this for powering recommendation engine (e.g. recommend programmes brands from a last.fm account), or building some visualisations.
The dataset is available here. (Based on playout data for Radio1, 1Xtra, Radio2 and 6Music from September 2007 until mid-June 2008)
NEW: We've done the same for episodes/artist data.
We have built a list of genres for MusicBrainz artists, based on editorial data entered
for bbc.co.uk/music.
You can download the dataset here:
This same data was also submitted to MusicBrainz as tags, for example: Rock and Indie.
We also have a version of bbc.co.uk/programmes with RDF views of Brands, Episodes, Series and Episodes: