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Otmar Hilliges, Philipp Holzer, R.Klüber, Andreas Butz
Audio Radar: A metaphorical visualization for the navigation of large music collections
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics, ISBN 978-3540362937, Vancouver, Canada, July 23 - 25, 2006 (bib)

Collections of electronic music are mostly organized according to playlists based on artist names and song titles. Music genres are inherently ambiguous and, to make matters worse, assigned manually by a diverse user community. People tend to organize music based on similarity to other music and based on the music's emotional qualities. Taking this into account, we have designed a music player which derives a set of criteria from the actual music data and then provides a coherent visual metaphor for a similarity-based navigation of the music collection.