Figure 1
The sampling process is guided by 279 seed mood labels from AllMusic, which were used to retrieve songs with basic mood labels via the Last.fm API.
Table 1
Basic statistics for all V-A-D tags in the dataset.
| VALENCE TAGS | AROUSAL TAGS | DOMINANCE TAGS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Count | 90,001 | 90,001 | 90,001 |
| Mean value | 5.45 | 4.32 | 5.25 |
| Min value | 0.23 | 0.11 | 0.23 |
| Max value | 8.48 | 7.27 | 7.44 |
| Std. | 1.55 | 1.15 | 1.17 |
Figure 2
Example for a song with its mood tags and tag weights (left), the individual V-A-D scores for each tag (middle) and the weighted average for the three dimensions (right). Image taken from Akiki and Burghardt (2020).
Table 2
Information available in the MuSe dataset.
| ATTRIBUTE | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| lastfm_url | Last.fm page of the song | https://www.last.fm/music/eminem/_/%2527till%2bi%2bcollapse |
| track | Song title | ‘Till I Collapse’ |
| artist | Artist name | Eminem |
| seeds | The initial keyword(s) that seeded the scraping of this song | [‘aggressive’] |
| number_of_emotion_tags | Number of words that contributed to the emotion score of the song | 6 |
| valence_tags | Pleasantness dimension of the song | 4.55 |
| arousal_tags | Intensity dimension of the song | 5.27 |
| dominance_tags | Control dimension of the song | 5.69 |
| mbid | MusicBrainz Identifier of the song | cab93def-26c5-4fb0-bedd-26ec4c1619e1 |
| spotify_id | Spotify Identifier of the song | 4xkOaSrkexMciUUogZKVTS |
| genre | Genre of the song | rap |