Most of the time when we listen to music on the radio or on our portable devices, the order in
which the tracks are played is governed by so-called playlists. These playlists are basically …

Along with the rapid expansion of digital music formats, managing and searching for songs
has become significant. Though music information retrieval (MIR) techniques have been …

This chapter gives an introduction to music recommender systems research. We highlight
the distinctive characteristics of music, as compared to other kinds of media. We then …

We provide a survey of the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), in particular paying
attention to latest developments, such as semantic auto-tagging and user-centric retrieval …

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an ear piece comprising: an ambient
microphone; an ear canal microphone; an ear canal receiver; a sealing section; a logic …

Since the Netflix $1 million Prize, announced in 2006, our company has been known to have
personalization at the core of our product. Even at that point in time, the dataset that we …

This thesis aims at develo** techniques which support users in accessing and discovering
music. The main part consists of two chapters. Chapter 2 gives an introduction to …

One of the most compelling social questions, which until now was left unanswered by
current technology, is" Who's that?" This question is usually asked about a new unfamiliar …

Relevance Popularity-based approaches are widely adopted in music recommendation
systems, both in industry and research. These approaches recommend to the target user …

This book provides a summary of the manifold audio-and web-based approaches to music
information retrieval (MIR) research. In contrast to other books dealing solely with music …