The Secret Source: Supporting the Artists Whose Works Have Made Our Works Possible
Karn Watcharasupat, Jo Chung, Yonghyun Kim, Amy Hung, Fabian-Robert Stöter
Primary Subject: Other
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The music information retrieval community has long benefited from open and royalty-free datasets, both academically and commercially. The artists whose works have become part of these datasets, however, often see little to no tangible compensation for their work, even when their music has become an integral part of a commercially successful task such as music source separation. In this work, we introduce a simple web application that allows users to discover these artists and support their work. This is by no means a sustainable attempt to rectify this long-standing economic disparity, but hopefully will be a small first step in keeping ourselves accountable and conscious of the creators whose creative outputs we so often unfairly rely on.