This paper analyzes the impact of music file sharing on CD purchases. Traditionally , two arguments are opposed concerning the impact of the music file sharing on CD sales. On the one hand, MP3s downloads only reduces sales of legitimate. On the other hand, consumption of free MP3s could lead people to buy CD which they would never have bought otherwise (the “sampling effect”). Because the cour...

The immersive growth of digitally available audio files calls for novel forms of interaction and consumption. There are many different approaches how to navigate and organize audio collections, but most of them do not offer much more than some kind of scrolling through lists, sometimes fancier, often not. A novel form of playlist creation is possible through Music Maps, which provide a interact...

The market for mobile entertainment content is predicted to develop positively in the next couple of years, providing profitable opportunities for suppliers in the related industries. During 2005, the hype around mobile music distribution and consumption has intensified noticeably. However, portable audio players, such as iPod, are also very popular among consumers, and generally provide better...

Despite the increasing popularity of cloud-based music services, few studies have examined how users select and utilize these services, how they manage and access their music collections in the cloud, and the issues or challenges they are facing within these services. In this paper, we present findings from an online survey with 198 responses collected from users of commercial cloud music servi...

As music streaming services dominate the music industry, the playlist is becoming an increasingly crucial element of music consumption. Consequently, the music recommendation problem is often casted as a playlist generation problem. Better understanding of the playlists is therefore necessary for developing better playlist generation algorithms. In this work, we analyse two playlist datasets to...

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer surplus. Successful bundling would indeed translate some of the interest in music not generating rev...

We present a web-based cross-platform adaptive music player that combines music information retrieval (MIR) and audio processing technologies with the interaction capabilities offered by GPS-equipped mobile devices. The application plays back a list of music tracks, which are linked to geographic paths in a map. The music player has two main enhanced features that adjust to the location of the ...

In creative media, visual imagery is often combined with music soundtracks. In the resulting artefacts, the consumption of isolated music or imagery will not be the main goal, but rather the combined multimedia experience. Through frequent combination of music with non-musical information resources and the corresponding public exposure, certain types of music will get associated to certain type...