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I’ve been involved in measuring the evolution of the charts for quite a while (at Last.fm, see the Anatomy of the Charts), and we’re opening a new chapter now. That new chapter needs your help! We want to dump…
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It was fun to present the work I did with Simon to the people at ISMIR. Some people seemed to have liked it, so thanks for that. This video is a test run of the presentation I did last night,…
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Our Songle.jp web service for interactive music analysis and annotation can now analyse and playback PIAPRO and SoundCloud content. This great new development from my old research group around Masataka Goto at AIST in Japan means that the number…
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“Britain doesn’t need talent” is what Bob MacCallum and Armand Leroi, both at Imperial College, called the DarwinTunes demo at the Imperial Festival just a few weeks ago. What we weren’t allowed to tell anyone back then was…
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It was my first ever Music Hack Day, and despite being sceptical at the beginning, I was eventually won over by the average quality of all the hacks. My positive impression was—let’s say—enhanced by the fact that the hack Sven…
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Today at ISMIR Masataka Goto finally presented Songle.jp - our web service for “active music listening and content-based music browsing”. It’s awesome. I’m really proud I’m part of it: I did the chord, beat and bar annotation code. But,…
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As a supplement to my ISMIR paper, I now opened up the Structural Change code in a Last.fm github repository. Thanks to Last.fm for letting me do this.
As anyone reading the paper may have spotted, it’s a…
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I’ve been awarded a 5 year research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering for my project “Software Systems for Computer-Aided Music Understanding”. My work will be carried out at the Centre for Digital Music, part of Queen…
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I’m very pleased to announce the first openly accessible outcome to my work at Last.fm: Audio Flowers. We’ve analysed audio of about 17,000 tracks with our new complexity detector, then visualised the outcome as “Audio Flowers”. If you want…
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Abstract: We present Song Prompter, a software system that acts as a performance assistant by showing horizontally scrolling lyrics and chords in a graphical user interface, together with an audio accompaniment consisting of bass and MIDI drums. Both alignment and…