Globe of Music - Music Library Visualization Using Geosom

Music collections are commonly represented as plain textual lists of artist, title, album etc. for each contained music track. The large volume of personal music libraries makes them difficult to browse and access for users. In respect to possible information visualization techniques, no established convenient user interfaces exist. By using a spherical self-organizing map algorithm on low level audio features and processing the resulting map data, a Geographic Information System is used to visualize a music collection. This results in an aspiring music library visualization, which can be handled intuitively by the user and even provides new possibilities for accessing a music collection in the digital domain.