The MUSART Testbed for Query-by-Humming Evaluation

Аннотация

Music Information Retrieval has become an active area of research motivated by the increasing importance of Internet-based music distribution. In December 2003, Apple Computer announced it was selling almost 1.5 million music downloads per week (www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/dec/ 15itunes.html), and some analysts predict that downloads will account for 33 percent of the music industry’s sales by 2008 (Zeidler 2003). Online catalogs are already approaching one million songs, so it is important to study new techniques for searching these vast stores of audio.