“…MIR has gradually developed into an interdisciplinary research field that is related to audio signal processing [8,9], audio content indexing [1,2,3,4,7,10], sequence matching [8], pattern recognition [11], music retrieval evaluation [12], etc. Applications of queryby-audio MIR include near duplicate audio detection [13], audio-based music plagiarism analysis [14] and query-byexample/humming/singing [1,10]. Although different issues such as search intention, music genre and mood, personal interests and culture background, have to be considered during the search formulation, the retrieval process is generally simple: take audio content as the query, perform similarity search and finally return the results in a ranked list.…”