New computer applications, such as the infamous “Napster” system enable the sharing of music over the Internet, with limited communication around this sharing of music. This paper discusses the use and opportunities for these music sharing technologies using interviews with users of both conventional and new music sharing technologies. The data show that music sharing is a practice that is rich...

Sheet music and audio recordings represent and describe music on different semantic levels. Sheet music describes abstract high-level parameters such as notes, keys, measures, or repeats in a visual form. Because of its explicitness and compactness, most musicologists discuss and analyze the meaning of music on the basis of sheet music. On the contrary, most people enjoy music by listening to a...

This paper discusses some grand challenges in which music information research will impact our daily lives and our society in the future. Here, some fundamental questions are how to provide the best music for each person, how to predict music trends, how to enrich human-music relationships, how to evolve new music, and how to address environmental, energy issues by using music technologies. Our...

A psychiatric population (n=123) was examined on how music preferences had changed after the onset of a mental disorder. Most patients did not change their previous music preference; this group of patients considered music helpful for their mental state, showed more attractivity and enforcement as personality traits and used music more for emotion modulation. Patients who experienced a preferen...

OBJECTIVES Music can provide ergogenic, psychological, and psychophysical benefits during physical activity, especially when movements are performed synchronously with music. The present study developed the train of research on synchronous music and extended it to elite athletes. DESIGN Repeated-measures laboratory experiment. METHOD Elite triathletes (n=11) ran in time to self-selected mot...

The affective aspect of music, often referred as music mood or emotion, has been recently recognized as an important factor in organizing and accessing music information. However, music mood is far from being well studied in information science. For example, there is no consensus on whether to use mood or emotion to refer the affective aspect of music. Also, the lack of consensus on music mood ...

After several years of research and development, PROBADO Music—a multimodal digital music library system—is now made available for the public. To allow access to anyone from anywhere, we have prepared a collection of public domain music material that is accessible through our system. Besides streaming and presenting digital music documents (scanned sheet music, audio recordings, and lyrics), PR...

This paper presents a technique for enhancing music information by annotation, and we apply the technique of annotated music to a collaborative music creation system on the Web, Music Resonator (MR). In MR, a user retrieves music fragments from Pool, processes them on Operation Diagram Editor and shares new music fragments with others, just as people readily exchange emails through mobile phone...

Background interference creates voice intelligibility issue for listener. This research work considers background music as interference for communication through smart phone in areas with loud background music. This paper proposes a novel framework for background music segregation from human speech using music fingerprinting and acoustic echo cancellation. Initially, background music is searche...

Much of the difficulty in Music Information Retrieval can be traced to problems of good music representations, understanding music structure, and adequate models of music perception. In short, the central problem of Music Information Retrieval is Music Understanding, a topic that also forms the basis for much of the work in the fields of Computer Music and Music Perception. It is important for ...