Since numerous songs have recently been released increasingly, the genre of the song clustering is reasonably more important in terms of the audience’s choice. Also arguments for plagiarism are continuously being raised. For this reason, similarity measurement between two songs is important. In previous works, although similarity measurement has been actively researched in the field of query by...

—Ascertaining the functions bird song requires information about when and where a song or, for males with multisong repertoires, songs are used. Because the need for and type of communication with mates and conspecifics changes with breeding stage and social context, detailed observations may reveal differential use of song or of different song types. Our objective was to examine the use, and d...

Humpback whale song lengths were measured from recordings made off the west coast of the island of Hawai'i in March 1998 in relation to acoustic broadcasts ("pings") from the U.S. Navy SURTASS Low Frequency Active sonar system. Generalized additive models were used to investigate the relationships between song length and time of year, time of day, and broadcast factors. There were significant s...

Given the recent explosion in the use of folksonomies to describe digital objects, it is important to study how users tag items in order to design online systems that best meet their needs. This small-scale study explored what music information facets users of the social music website last.fm might consider when assigning emotion-based tags to describe songs, as well as whether a small group of...