A big thanks to Dan Stowell for making the brilliant Yanno web application, which uses my Chordino Vamp plugin to extract the chords of any YouTube video you like. For example, say you find a video of Help!, then you can click a special bookmark (as explained on the Yanno page) and what you get is a web site with the chord transcription showing alongside the video. Now, everyone who follows the music information retrieval publication circuit just a little bit has ample opportunity to witness that chord transcription is not nearly perfect yet, and Chordino isn’t even state-of-the-art! (It was always going to be only a simple chord estimator on top of NNLS Chroma.) So don’t expect miracles, but it might just be a little bit useful. I’m loving it, I must admit, I’ve probably submitted more requests than anyone else.
Since Yanno is a developed as a prototype teaching tool for schools as part of Simon Dixon’s Musicology for the Masses project, Dan has not put the main emphasis on making a shiny user interface. I hope that as time goes on, someone (maybe Dan, or me, or someone else) will make the page more user-friendly and faster.