For the first time since 2003, the sales of music albums increased by 3.6% during the first half of 2011 (Nielsen SoundScan 2011). This trend reversal was significant in the backdrop of steady decline of more than 30% sales of albums from the peak in early 2000s (RIAA 2011). The “rise of the digital technologies” marked the watershed of the traditional music market which was dominated by major ...

File-sharing has become synonym with the “digital economy” where large music conglomerates as well as certain artist voice strong concern over the impact on their bottom line. This research analyzes the music industry, which has been heavily impacted by a major technological shift i.e. the invention, and rollout, of the Internet. We look to the technological shift that has enabled the downloadi...

The audio bitstream in music encodes a high amount of statistical, acoustic, emotional and cultural information. But music also has an important linguistic accessory; most musical artists are described in great detail in record reviews, fan sites and news items. We highlight current and ongoing research into extracting relevant features from audio and simultaneously learning language features l...

Biofeedback tools generally use visualizations to display physiological information to the user. As such, these tools are incompatible with visually demanding tasks such as driving. While auditory or haptic biofeedback may be used in these cases, the additional sensory channels can increase workload or act as a nuisance to the user. A number of studies, however, have shown that music can improv...

Music transcription has many uses ranging from music information retrieval to better education tools. An important component of automated transcription is the identification and labeling of different kinds of vocal expressions such as vibrato, glides, and riffs. In Indian Classical Music such expressions are particularly important since a raga is often established and identified by the correct ...

The rapid growth of the Internet and the advancements of Internet technologies have made it possible for music listeners to have access to a large amount of on-line music data, including music sound signals, lyrics, biographies, and discographies. Music artists in the 21st century are promoted through various kinds of websites that are managed by themselves, by their fans, or by their record co...

Most websites providing music services only support category-based browsing and/or text-based searching. There has been some research to improve the interface either for pull applications, e.g. query-by-humming systems, or for push applications, e.g. collaborative-filtering-based or featurebased music recommendation systems. However, for content-based search or feature-based filtering systems, ...

previously studies have shown that music can be used to increase the time to engage in physical activity but music's role in controlling the intensity of pa has been studied less. the sensorimotor synchronization (sms), the coordination of rhythmic movement with rhythmic sensory stimuli method, seems to have enough potential and can be applied instead of the previous method for ordinary pe...