Do You sound like your Friends? Exploring Artist Similarity via Artist Social Network Relationships and audio signal Processing

A sample of the Myspace artist network is examined to investigate the relationship between social connectivity and audio-based similarity. Audio data from the Myspace artist pages is analyzed using well-established signal-based music information retrieval techniques. In addition to showing that the Myspace artist network exhibits many of the properties common to social networks, we show there is an ambiguous relationship between audio-based similarity and the social network topology.

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