articleProceedings of the IEEEMar 19, 2008Closed access

Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges

University of London · Goldsmiths University of London · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

The steep rise in music downloading over CD sales has created a major shift in the music industry away from physical media formats and towards online products and services. Music is one of the most popular types of online information and there are now hundreds of music streaming and download services operating on the World-Wide Web. Some of the music collections available are approaching the scale of ten million tracks and this has posed a major challenge for searching, retrieving, and organizing music content. Research efforts in music information retrieval have involved experts from music perception, cognition, musicology, engineering, and computer science engaged in truly interdisciplinary activity that has…

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Keywords
  • Music information retrieval
  • Computer science
  • Upload
  • Musicology
  • Pop music automation
  • Music and artificial intelligence
  • Multimedia
  • World Wide Web
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Quality Education
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