Music-related metadata is becoming more and more important in times of digital music distribution. Methods for automatically extracting such information from the WWW have been elaborated, implemented, and analyzed. On sets of Web pages that are related to a music artist or band, Web content mining techniques are applied to address the following categories of information: similarities between music artists, prototypicality of an artist for a genre, descriptive properties of an artist, band members and instrumentation, images of album cover artwork. Different approaches to retrieve the...