I'm looking to collect or download a dataset for music consisting of info such as artist/album/song. Any idea where to grab this from? There used to be a list hosted on Google around 2 yrs ago but I can't find anymore.
You can also bulk download Discogs here: http://www.discogs.com/data/
And MusicBrainz has one here: http://musicbrainz.org/
You can also bulk download wikipedia, cross reference page titles with a set of artist names, and grab whatever information you want if your Regex skills are magical.
A general word of caution: User-sourced music information is very very messy. Be prepared for a lot of mispellings, bad metadata, missing information, etc.
someone's already done this for you. see: dbpedia.org