Podcasts and popular music are different kinds of sonic media, but they increasingly in direct competition for our listening time within the ‘audio market’. Audio platforms like Spotify, Apple Google host both podcasts (and other audio media) so their distribution decisions infrastructure have a significant impact on musicians, podcasters, record labels, podcast networks industrial entities. De...

2. OUR APPROACH In published literature, usually, acoustic input singing or humming is pitch-tracked and segmented into notes or converted into three or five level melody contour, melody contour is also extracted from music in database, our approach (Figure 1) does not try to segment notes at all, we employ statistic model to extract singing from popular music, user’s input singing and extracte...

The automatic extraction of musical structure from audio is an important aspect for many music information retrieval (MIR) systems. The criteria on which structural elements in music are defined in MIR systems is often not clearly stated but typically stem from (music) theoretical or signal-based properties. In many cases, however, perceptual-based criteria are the most relevant and systems nee...

We present a new method to segment popular music based on rhythm. By computing a shortest path based on the self-similarity matrix calculated from a model of rhythm, segmenting boundaries are found along the diagonal of the matrix. The cost of a new segment is optimized by matching manual and automatic segment boundaries. We compile a small song database of 21 randomly selected popular Chinese ...

This text was originally published as an article in Semiotica 66-1/3 (1987), pp. 279-298. Copyright P Tagg (author, Liverpool) and Mouton de Gruyter (publishers, Amsterdam). This text is basically the same as that sent unedited to Mouton de Gruyter in 1986, except that bibliographical references have been corrected. Footnote numbers are not the same as in the Semiotica version. Starts of pages ...

Music has been an inherent part of human life when it comes to recreation; entertainment and much recently, even as a therapeutic medium. The way music is composed, played and listened to has witnessed an enormous transition from the age of magnetic tape recorders to the recent age of digital music players streaming music from the cloud. What has remained intact is the special relation that mus...

Music expresses emotion. However, analyzing the emotion in music by computer is a difficult task. Some work can be found in the literature, but the results are not satisfactory. In this paper, an emotion detection and classification system for pop music is presented. The system extracts feature values from the training music files by PsySound2 and generates a music model from the resulting feat...

Since rock became the subject of academic study, its attendant ideology has been scrutinised and its mythical and Romantic components exposed. Largely absent from this account has been a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of the ‘band’. The role of individual acts and the wider contexts in which they worked has been discussed at the expense of an examination of an important form of music-makin...