Exploring Music Collections in Virtual Landscapes

  • Authors:
  • Peter Knees;Markus Schedl;Tim Pohle;Gerhard Widmer

  • Affiliations:
  • Johannes Kepler University Linz;Johannes Kepler University Linz;Johannes Kepler University Linz;Johannes Kepler University Linz

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A user interface to music repositories called nepTune creates a virtual landscape for an arbitrary collection of digital music files, letting users freely navigate the collection. Automatically extracting features from the audio signal and clustering the music pieces accomplish this. The clustering helps generate a 3D island landscape.