MCIpa: A Music Content Information Player and Annotator for Discovering Music

In this paper, we present a new tool for intra-document browsing of musical pieces. This tool is a multimedia player which represents the content of a musical piece visually. Each type of musical content (structure, chords, downbeats/ beats, notes, events) is associated which a distinct visual representation. The user sees what he/ she is listening too. He can also browse inside the music according to the visual content. For this, each type of visual object has a dedicated feedback, either as an audio-feedback or as a playhead feedback. Content information can be extracted automatically from audio (using signal processing algorithms) or annotated by hand by the user. This multimedia player can also be used as an annotator tool guided by the content.

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