Sonic visualiser: an open source application for viewing, analysing, and annotating music audio files

  • Authors:
  • Chris Cannam;Christian Landone;Mark Sandler

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Sonic Visualiser is a friendly and flexible end-user desktop application for analysis, visualisation, and annotation of music audio files. Its stated goal is to be "the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it". To this end, it has a user interface that resembles familiar audio editing applications, a set of useful standard visualisation facilities, and support for a plugin format for additional automated analysis methods.