On Techniques for Content-Based Visual Annotation to Aid Intra-Track Music Navigation

Despite the fact that people are increasingly listening to music electronically, the core interface of the common tools for playing the music have had very little improvement. In particular the tools for intra-track navigation have remained basically static, not taking advantage of recent studies into the field of audio jisting, summarising and segmentation. We introduce a novel mechanism for musical audio linear summarisation and modify a widely used open source media player to utilise several music information retrieval techniques directly in the graphical user interface. With a broad range of music, we provide a qualitative discussion on several techniques used for contentbased music information retrieval and perform quantitative investigation to their usefulness.