Tagged at first listen: an examination of social tagging practices in a music recommender system

Authors

  • Audrey Laplante Associate professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2015v20nesp1p33

Keywords:

Social tagging, music indexing, music recommender systems

Abstract

Social tagging has become a very common way to index different types of resources on the web. Less prevalent in music than in other domains, social tagging is nevertheless used in a popular recommender system, Last.fm. Although the number of publications on tagging and folksonomies has exploded in the last few years, music tagging is still not well studied. In this paper, we present a study of tagging practices of Last.fm users. We examine the social tagging of songs during the first three months after their release. Our analysis shows that the release of a song triggers a burst in tagging activity that lasts two weeks, after what it decreases sharply and then remains fairly constant for the next ten weeks. We also find that a majority of songs do not get tagged during the first week and that tagging was positively related to popularity. Finally, we find that tags that have been frequently applied to a given song are more likely to be genre related, shorter in length, and relatively objective than tags that have been applied only once. 

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Author Biography

Audrey Laplante, Associate professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal

Associate professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal

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Published

2015-01-12

How to Cite

LAPLANTE, Audrey. Tagged at first listen: an examination of social tagging practices in a music recommender system. Encontros Bibli: revista eletrônica de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação, [S. l.], p. 33–54, 2015. DOI: 10.5007/1518-2924.2015v20nesp1p33. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2015v20nesp1p33. Acesso em: 8 nov. 2024.