How to extract a Freebase data dump for a specific topic

Question

I want to extract music data from freebase data dumps. ( http://www.freebase.com/music )

As soon as I have a data dump, how can I extract, say the following properties http://www.freebase.com/music/recording?schema=

Would it be a better approach to get all the songs and then extract relevant information from it? If this is a good approach, how can I extract it?

Answer 1

zgrep $'\tns:music\.recording' freebase-rdf-{date}.gz | gzip > freebase-filtered.gz 

should start. Depending on what other information you want, you may need to expand it.