An industrial-strength content-based music recommendation system

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Cano;Markus Koppenberger;Nicolas Wack

  • Affiliations:
  • IUA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;IUA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;IUA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music, the MusicSurfer. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentation, rhythm and harmony from music audio signals. Together with efficient similarity metrics, the descriptions allow navigation of multimillion track music collections in a flexible and efficient way without the need of metadata or human ratings.