MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library(crunchgear.com)

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MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/15/musicbox-a-truly-powerful-visualization-of-your-music-library/

5 comments

nickbvor 18 Jahren

From the thesis:

MusicBox is written in Java 6, and uses Processingfor drawing the visuals. Its dependencies are written in Python (for creating the cached soundsieve thumbnails) and Perl (for uploading and retrieving analysis result ﬁles from The Echo Nest). Audio analysis depends on The Echo Nest Analyze API [56] and Rhythm Histogram Matlab code from the Vienna University of Technology . Jonathan Hilliker created the icons used for the playlist playback buttons.

The Echo Nest (the.echonest.com) seems to be the classification engine that makes it possible.

atarashivor 18 Jahren

The Echo Nest was co-founded by a member of her group at the media lab.

mynameisherevor 18 Jahren

beats per minute, length, tone, and a whole bunch of other semi-tangible quantities

Not once have I ever gone through my collection looking for a song fitting any of the above particular qualities. Maybe some have, but when Pink floyd, the Clash, and Beethoven can occasionally aggree on BPM, it becomes a distinctly useless metric.

mullrvor 18 Jahren

But for a DJ looking to beat match songs, it's a pretty important thing.

Hastvor 18 Jahren

The point is that those are metrics which the computer uses to classify the music. You can then find similar music which may not be obvious at first. (Just look at the video to see examples.)