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Identifying cover songs using chord profiles

Bastien

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Bastien @ 2013-09-22 19:26:00 UTC

From Fondazione Bruno Kessler and based on SecondHandSongs data: A new system for scalable cover

song identification, using chord profiles.




Read the full paper.

tsk

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tsk @ 2013-09-22 21:10:07 UTC

While I admit that I don't fully understand this paper, I am pleased that the database has been put to a valuable use among scholars. It speaks well off our efforts that the database is recognized as useful in the advancement of knowledge.

Denis

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Denis @ 2013-09-23 17:00:04 UTC

If I understand correctly, this experiment got us one step closer to identifying a cover song based on the original song's chords.

Imagine an app listening to a version of a song it doesn't know, but still recognizing it as a cover version. Seems awesome.

walt

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walt @ 2013-09-24 09:08:46 UTC

The Million Song Dataset seems also using SHS


http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/


Came across this Smile


"Science Concludes Modern Music Too Loud, All Sounds The Same"


Crotchety old men seem to have won this argument. Modern pop music is too loud and does sound all the same, just like angry old types have been saying for 70 years.


A team from Spain analyzed music from a 55 year period, using an archive known as the Million Song Dataset, and found that songs have indeed become both louder and more homogenized in terms of chords and melodies.


http://www.science20.com/science_20/million_song_dataset_science_concludes_moder…