Hi Markus, all,

first of all, thank you very much for providing these datasets available to
everyone!

--- In kddcup2011@yahoogroups.com, Markus Weimer <markus@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the artist, track and album names are not part of the data set.
> Thus, it is impossible to add information from the sources you
> mention.

So, is there any special reason for that?
I didn't hope the dataset contain any extra or fancy metadata.
But, come on, not containing neither artist nor song names! I don't get it...

>
> Good luck with the competition!
>

Well, I think I'm off :-(
Without artist/song name, the dataset has no interest for me (e.g. it doesn't
make any sense not being able to understand what are you predicting).

As it is now, this is not really a "music dataset" nor a competition about
"music recommendation", but simply a way to apply CF to a huge dataset.
In a way, this is good for people doing research on CF. But, not being able to
add *any* knowledge about the domain... it doesn't make any sense, IMHO.

Cheers,

Oscar Celma

> Markus