MusicBricks

Innovative tools for creative people: We provide these technological #MusicBricks as tools for hacking and creating new applications in the course of the MusicBricks project.

• RP_extract: Rhythm & Timbre Feature Extraction from Music (also see below)
  
• SMINT API & Search by Sound Music Similarity Retrieval system

Music Analysis: Audio Feature Extraction Software

• RP extract: Audio Feature Extractor for Rhythm and Timbre features from music. [More Details]
  Extracts Rhythm Patterns, Rhythm Histograms and Statistical Spectrum Descriptors. [About Audio Features]
  • Python Version: (latest version: 2016-03, ongoing dev) download from GitHub[Tutorial]
  • Java Version: (latest version: 2010-06-17) Java RP download page [How To]
  • Matlab Version: (latest version: 0.6411 from 2008-08-15) download RP extractor for Matlab [How To]
• Chord Detection: GenChords (C++ source code) [Details]
• Audio Segmentation: ep_audiosegmentation (Matlab) [Details]

Documentation:

• Overview description of audio features
  
• Scientific background paper on audio features
  
• Tutorial on Audio Feature Extraction (Python) (recommended)
• Tutorial 2 on Audio Feature Extraction (Python) (slightly outdated)

Sample Feature Vector Files

• ISMIRgenre database:
    SOMLib Format: Rhythm Patterns, Rhythm Histograms, Statistical Spectrum Descriptors
    WEKA ARFF Format: Rhythm Patterns, Rhythm Histograms
• ISMIRrhythm database:
    SOMLib Format: Rhythm Patterns, Rhythm Histograms, Statistical Spectrum Descriptors
  

Music Visualization and Interactive Applications

• Map of Mozart: Mozart's complete works clustered on a Self-Organizing Map
• PlaySOM demonstrators
• PocketSOM for Mobile phones (MobileSOM) (JavaME) [Details]
• Query by Example Interface for retrieval of MIDI files (Java source) [Details]
• Sonarflow mobile app for visual music discovery, created by TU Wien spin-out Spectralmind

Music Similarity Evaluation

• cLynx: Acoustic Similarity Evaluation Tool [Details]

Web Services

• Online Audio Feature Extractor
• Online Web Service for the training of Self-Organizing (Music) Maps