Category Archives: Music IR

Music and GooTube

Google has had somewhat of an odd relationship over the years to music information, and music information retrieval.  They’ve never really had a consistent policy, research, or product agenda around music.  The specifics of that history is too rich to … Continue reading

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Genome Music

Somehow, I don’t think this is what the Pandora.com founders had in mind when they created the Music Genome Project a decade ago at Stanford: After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the … Continue reading

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Google to become a Music Content Company?

Some speculation from Liz Gannes of the GigaOM network: YouTube and Universal Music Group are in talks to create a music video site called “Vevo,” according to reports by CNET and the Wall Street Journal […] Creating a labels-only music video site would shatter … Continue reading

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Music and Exploratory Search

One of my early, longstanding information retrieval passions is Music Information Retrieval — especially content-based music IR.  I began research in MIR back in 1998 as a graduate student at UMass Amherst.  In 2000, we organized the very first ISMIR … Continue reading

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