Compare Music File Formats

File-Formats for Preservation: Evaluating the Long-Term Stability of File-Formats

While some file-formats become unreadable after short periods, others remain interpretable over a long-term. Among the over 1.000 file-formats, some are better and some are less suited for long-term preservation. A standardized process for evaluating the stability of a file-format is described in this paper and its practical use is shown with file-formats for 3D-objects. Recommendations to user...

A Brief Introduction to Digital Music File Formats

Automated Instructional Aid for Reading Sheet Music

The possibility of developing accessible optical music recognition presents an amazing array of opportunities to improve the musical education experience. While the topic has been the subject of research for decades, widespread application of this technology has not reached the general consumer. We have developed a sheet music image processing application targeted towards beginner music to prov...

The Use of Conventional and New Music Media: Implications for Future Technologies

A number of new technologies such as the MP3 music compression format and the Napster file sharing network are creating new opportunities for consumers’ activities with music media. In this paper we explore current practice with both conventional and new forms of media in order to better understand what the future may hold for music consumers. We interviewed 36 music enthusiasts: 12 teenaged an...

jMIR and ACE XML: Tools for Performing and Sharing Research in Automatic Music Classification

This presentation will begin by introducing the research fields of music information retrieval and automatic music classification. The core of the presentation will then be divided into two parts, the first dealing with the jMIR software suite, and the second dealing with the ACE XML file formats. jMIR is a set of free and open source software tools for automatically classifying music in a vari...