Music listening has long-standing ties to mental health, positive affective states, and wellbeing. Even outside of clinical contexts, music is increasingly being explored as a costeffective, ubiquitous way to support emotion regulation and stress reduction in people’s everyday lives. Games have also been shown to have the capability to improve player well-being in certain contexts. However, the...

We present here Good Vibrations, a tool for music tagging, exploration and discovery, shaped as a media player plugin, and intended for home users. The plugin allows the quick ”invention” of concepts and properties that can be tagged to songs. After some hours of active tagging, the plugin starts automatically proposing the proper tags to the user, who is also allowed to correct them. The plugi...

In this paper we explore connections between players’ preferences in gameplay and their desire to listen game music. Music always takes place cultural contexts the activity of music listening is likewise entangled with versatile practices. This arguably evident case since primary context encountering it active participatory experience gameplay. By analyzing survey data (N = 403) collected from ...

The video game Dance Dance Revolution is a musicbased game of timing. The game plays music and shows patterns of arrows synchronized with the music. The player stands on a platform marked with the same four arrows shown in the game and earns a score based on how closely his steps match the timing of the video game. A pattern of steps for a given song is called a step chart, and each step chart ...

The SyncPlayer system is an advanced audio player for multimodal presentation, browsing, and retrieval of music data. The system has been extended significantly in the last few years. In this contribution, we describe the current state of the system and demonstrate the functionalities and interactions of the novel SyncPlayer components including combined interand intra-document music browsing. ...

This paper presents a design and implementation of a hard-disk based portable entertainment device based on an ARM-based system for managing thousands of personal photo/music/video collections anywhere you go. This device is designed as a music-centric entertainment player, slideshow player, digital photo storage and video player with built-in metadata database to sync and manage the contents. ...

This paper describes Song2Guitar which automatically generates difficulty-aware guitar solo cover of popular music from its acoustic signals. Previous research has utilized hidden Markov models (HMMs) to generate playable guitar piece from music scores. Our Song2Guitar extends the framework by leveraging MIR technologies so that it can handle beats, chords and melodies extracted from polyphonic...