User studies in the music information retrieval and music digital library fields have been gradually increasing in recent years, but large-scale studies that can help detect common user behaviors are still lacking. We have conducted a large-scale user survey in which we asked numerous questions related to users’ music needs, uses, seeking, and management behaviors. In this paper, we present our...

Several scholars have argued that adolescents' sexting behavior might be influenced by their media use. However, to date, empirical evidence of the link between media socialization and engagement in sexting behavior remains scarce. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether music video and pornography consumption are able to predict a range of sexting behaviors among a sample of 329 a...

music consumption is a new topic in the academic literature, but the consumption of music itself has been part of human culture for centuries and all human more or less listen to it in order to fill their leisure time. marketers always find it challenging to identify the best way for selling music which at the same time can be accepted by different consumers, too. so, we tried to investigate th...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was first to find out the effect of music therapy on postoperative analgesia and second to determine the duration of its effect. METHODS Seventy patients who were undergoing elective cesarean delivery were enrolled. The patients were randomly allocated into two groups as follows: In Group 1, patients listened to music through a headphone for one hour after sur...

In my view, music is one of the most complex, difficult to study, and important to study of all cultural phenomena—in fact, among the most complex, difficult, and important of any phenomena whatsoever. Six features of music make it so: (1) Music is an art, so many musicians try to use its elements in interesting and original ways, not standardized and ordinary ways. (2) Music is a performing ar...

Indeed, music distribution and consumption is not as it used to be. iTunes, LastFM, or Spotify are just a few keywords that come to our mind when we think about music. The traditional channels have changed; the music industry is reinventing itself. Flight tickets and hotel reservations: another intangible good that can be easily bought online. Tourists need no longer the physical travel agencie...

The SIMAC project addresses the study and development of innovative components for a music information retrieval system. The key feature is the usage and exploitation of semantic descriptors of musical content that are automatically extracted from music audio files. These descriptors are generated in two ways: as derivations and combinations of lower-level descriptors and as generalizations ind...

Over the past several decades music production has evolved from something that was only possible with multiroom, multi-million dollar studios into the province of the average person’s living room. New tools for digital production have revolutionized the way we consume and interact with music on a daily basis. We propose a system based on a structured audio framework that can generate a basic mi...

The focus of this paper is the exploration of ontologies as a means for knowledge sharing in music information retrieval scenarios. Our approach is intended to support the complete “life cycle of digital music” and focuses on the implications of a digital world for all the actors involved in the process of creation, consumption and modification of such entities. As a novelty we take care about ...