Mining Music from Large-Scale, Peer-to-Peer Networks

Millions of users worldwide use peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for sharing content, with a significantly high percentage of this content being multimedia, such as songs and movies.1 As such, P2P networks are an invaluable resource for various multimedia information retrieval (MIR) tasks because of the large data set, the ability to capture data without the collaboration of P2P network oper ators, and a large and diverse population.