Creation and Exploration of Musical Information Spaces

With the creation of large audio collections, available on small portable devices or via Web portals, new ways for interacting with these collections need to be devised. Retrieving specific songs, or navigating through such audio repositories, relying on the way music sounds rather than on metadata tags, poses challenging problems. This paper presents the SOMeJB system, which builds on features extracted directly from sound signals such as CD recordings or MP3 files, to create a navigable information space of music according to perceived sound similarities of the individual titles.