mHashup

A Location-Tracking Interface for Ethnomusicological Collections

“…On query launch, the recorded sample is matched to other Lomax recordings from around the globe and brought to view in the mHashup similarity interface [17]. Our interface can potentially use any audio similarity search engine that is able of finding best matching fragments of audio files in a database.…”

“…The length of a bar corresponds to the relative length of a recording. The position of the matching audio shingle [17] is aligned with that of the queried one, visually highlighted, and allows for further sampling by direct manipulation. All searches are stored, enabling a return to a previously chosen query pathway and a jumping-off point for new searches.…”

Investigating Music Collections at Different Scales with AudioDB

“…We have investigated the provision of useful interfaces to a database of 50,000 tracks from the Artists Without a Label catalogue (Magas, Casey, & Rhodes, 2008), where the emphasis is on exploration of a collection of music by relatively unknown artists whose work is less likely to be discovered by using metadata. By presenting the user with tracks that contain at least one passage musically similar to a passage the user has selected, fresh and sometimes surprising discoveries are easily made within the collection, with the effect of greatly enhanced exposure for the artists concerned; in this scenario consistently achieving a high precision (measured against a carefully-considered ground truth) is less important and would arguably be counterproductive.…”