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Yaxi Chen, Andreas Butz
MusicSim: Integrating Audio Analysis and User Feedback in an Interactive Music Browsing UI
Proceedings of 14th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, February 8-11, 2009. ACM Press, pp. 429-433. (bib)

In music information retrieval (MIR), there are two main research directions, which are based either on a folder hierarchy and metadata, or on the actual acoustic content. We believe that both content-based and hierarchy-based retrieval have their respective strengths for browsing and organizing music collections, and that the integration of content analysis techniques in metadata-based media UIs can lead to more powerful UIs. In this paper we present a prototype, in which audio analysis techniques and user feedback are integrated into an interactive UI for browsing and organizing large music collections. We also provide visual assistance to support non-visual perception of music. We discussed our system with test users and received encouragement as well as valuable suggestions for future research.