Imagine a world where you walk up to a computer and sing the song fragment that has been
plaguing you since breakfast. The computer accepts your off-key singing, corrects your …

The increasing availability of music in digital format needs to be matched by the
development of tools for music accessing, filtering, classification, and retrieval. The research …

How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a
digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. A resource for individuals, agencies, and …

Recent developments in ICT, especially the web, have led to the creation of a growing
number of digital library projects in the UK, USA and elsewhere. This new phenomenon is …

With Islands of Music we present a system which facilitates exploration of music libraries
without requiring manual genre classification. Given pieces of music in raw audio format we …

Although a substantial number of research projects have addressed music information
retrieval over the past three decades, the field is still very immature. Few of these projects …

At present, music digital library systems are being developed based on anecdotal evidence
of user needs, intuitive feelings for user information seeking behavior, and a priori …

With the advent of large musical archives the need to provide an organization of these
archives becomes eminent. While artist-based organizations or title indexes may help in …

ABSTRACT Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is an interdisciplinary research area that has
grown out of the need to manage burgeoning collections of music in digital form. Its diverse …

Query‐by‐humming systems offer content‐based searching for melodies and require no
special musical training or knowledge. Many such systems have been built, but there has …