E-music distribution is becoming more and more popular over the Internet and a recent research states that e-music will soon replace audio-CDs. Some complains that simple audio tracks can never compete with a complete product like audio-CDs, which provide audio, but also lyrics, images and CD-covers. In this paper we focus on the MP3 open format and we propose a mechanism to transform a single ...

This paper gives an introduction into the principles of interactivity in music video games. Music video games are an old but small genre of games. The earliest direct ancestors emerged in the 1970ies. Some recent music video games were hugely successful. Until today, there are only a few different approaches to their design. The purpose of this article is to shed light on what these design prin...

digitalklang unites the world of DIGITAL (IT knowledge) and the world of KLANG (the German word for sound) into one integrated customer experience. At digitalklang, highly-qualified sound designers and programmers develop individual solutions for adding sound to the Internet and other Digital Media, while significantly enhancing user experience. The Interactive Sound Player (ISP), digitalklang’...

This paper presents an automatic music selection system based on runner’s step frequency. Recent development of portable music players like iPod has increased the number of those who listen to music while exercising. However, few systems which connect exercises with music selection have been developed. We propose a system that automatically selects music suitable for user’s running exercises. A...

As with films, a thoughtfully composed video game soundtrack has the ability to dramatically enhance and elevate the experience for the audience or player. This article explores the potential issues and difficulties of composing for video game systems by studying the sound-producing hardware and music for two popular systems from one manufacturer. By comparing two of Nintendo’s Super Mario titl...

As with films, a thoughtfully composed video game soundtrack has the ability to dramatically enhance and elevate the experience for the audience or player. This article explores the potential issues and difficulties of composing for video game systems by studying the sound-producing hardware and music for two popular systems from one manufacturer. By comparing two of Nintendo’s Super Mario titl...

Playing music instruments can bring a lot of joy and satisfaction, but not all apsects of music practice are always enjoyable. In this contribution we are addressing two such sometimes unwelcome aspects: the solitude of practicing and the ”dumbness” of instruments. The process of practicing and mastering of music instruments often takes place behind closed doors. A student of piano spends most ...

Today, people listen to music on their mobile phone or other playback devices. Jukefox is a special music player running on Google’s smart phone operating system Android. It’s capable of recognizing similarities between multiple songs, albums and artists using data based on a huge music similarity map [1] which classifies songs into a high-dimensional space. Songs with small distance are simila...

Today many people store music media files in personal computers or portable audio players, thanks to recent evolution of multimedia technologies. The more music media files these devices store, the messier it is to search for tunes that users want to listen to. We propose MusCat, a music browser to interactively search for the tunes according to features, not according to metadata (e.g. title, ...