Exploring internet radio across the globe with the MIRAGE online dashboard

TL;DR

The MIRAGE online dashboard provides a comprehensive platform for accessing, analyzing, and exporting metadata and musicological features from a vast array of internet radio stations worldwide, facilitating research and exploration.

Contribution

This paper introduces the MIRAGE dashboard, a novel tool that enables interactive exploration and analysis of global internet radio streaming data with rich metadata and musicological features.

Findings

Access to metadata for 1 million events across 10,000 stations

Interactive visualizations with embedded streaming links

Export capabilities for metadata and visualizations

Abstract

This study presents the Music Informatics for Radio Across the GlobE (MIRAGE) online dashboard, which allows users to access, interact with, and export metadata (e.g., artist name, track title) and musicological features (e.g., instrument list, voice type, key/mode) for 1 million events streaming on 10,000 internet radio stations across the globe. Users can search for stations or events according to several criteria, display, analyze, and listen to the selected station/event lists using interactive visualizations that include embedded links to streaming services, and finally export relevant metadata and visualizations for further study.