Some Interesting Sites

"Web 2.0"

• Last.FM - makes recommendations and creates playists and stations based on 'scrobbling', a process that records your listening habits and sends this into to a server. the site's player is open source and the Audioscrobble Web Services API is open, potentially useful for OMRAS2 research?
• MyStrands - also for recommendations, playlists, and social networking, includes an open developer interface called openStrands
• Goombah - recommendations and social networking, streaming of recs via ad-based Napster
• Slacker - some social networking w/ a focus on music recommendation, doesn't work in UK
• stage.fm - music site
• UpTo11 - music recommendations based on 'like-minded people'
• Mercora - this is 'DJ' driven, as in listeners create playlists...
• Mog - music site w/ a recommendation feature and software
• Plurn - playlist burner? social playlist site
• MusicMobs - social playlist site
• Yahoo! LAUNCHcast - aggregation of internet radio stations, create a personal radio station, share station w/ other users
• blogmusik - just stumbled on this one. Does anyone know anything about it? Seems like yamc (yet another music community)
• Hype Machine - a music blogging community w/ lots of cool features
• Foxy Tunes - a music information aggregator
• Foafing the music - semantic foaf-based music recommendation.
• blogmusik - music blogging w/ a player and such...
• Anywhere.fm - store your music online and recs by friend radio...
• finetune.com - yet another social playlisting site

Music Recommendation and Playlist Generation

• OWL Music - pretty awesome cc content-based search engine
• [[http://www.songfast.net/search.php?term=charlie%20parker&text=Search%21][volumo]
• Search Sounds - UPF's content-based music search engine
• pandora - Pandora is powered by the Music Genome Project where expert listeners fill out 400 fields for each artist/tune.
• music-map - this is part of the GNOD project, based on AI that learns from user input about music preferences. totally worth checking out.
• musicovery - the interface is cool, but the recommendations are mediocre
• liveplasma - very pretty interface. recommendations are mediocre. not sure how it works.
• FineTune.com - Playlist generation...
• Sound Flavor - Playlist generation, an 'inside source' says it is entirely based on expert listeners
• Music Mesh - yet another one...
• Tangerine! - this playlist generation seems to be the thing. This one is based around an iTunes plugin and color. interesting interface with 'drawable' playlists.
• Jango - pandora-style radio site

Commercial MIR Tech 4 License

• Music IP - content-based music search engine technology for license, based in LA
• Gracenote Discover - music recommendation by the CDDB people. uses a combo of music experts, DSP, and music community info

Academic MIR projects of note

• Islands of Music - This system was basically Elias Pampalk's PhD. Basically the first system to think about intuitive interfaces to collection exploration and based on extracted metadata (at least partially)
• Brain Tuning - an international collaboration investigating the processing of music in the brain - authors of the MIR Toolbox
• Resources for Music and Science - a list of music-science-related resources provided by the Music and Science Group of the University of London's Institute of Musical Research.
• MIR PhDs - a list of MIR PhDs kept by Elias...
• http://www.musictheoryexamples.com - Cutler's Internet Music Theory Database

Music MetaData Resources

• Music Brainz - a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. There is also an api for software developers...
• All Music Guide - the name says it all...

Query By Humming/Example

• midomi - qbh
• wasn't there another one in the news lately? http://www.nayio.com

MIR Evaluation

• MIREX - This page just feels a bit incomplete without MIREX. The link is to this year's wiki.
• are there any other evaluation organisations?

Semantic Web

• Music ontology - spec for describing music w/ semantic web
• DBTune
• dbpedia - semantic web for wikipedia
• Friend of a Friend spec
• geonames
• List of multimedia-related vocabularies
• Music recommendation ontology
• Classical music and performances
• MPEG7 ontologies

Music Identification

• Shazam- music id over mobile phone
  • Music ID patent - by shazam?
• GraceNote MusicID - not just for CDs?

Misc Music Sites

• MP3 Tunes - online music locker
• Band News - music news w/ web 2.0 spin...
• SongBird player - OSS music app w/ smart mix features
• filterMusic - 'filters' internet radio stations

Open Content Sources (Creative Commons)

• pump audio
• jamendo
• cc mixer
• magnatune
• Section Z
• D Music
• Op Sound
• OYEZ - open recordings of US Supreme Court hearings
• Sound Click
• Free Sound
• Beat Pick
• British Library Sound Archive

OMRAS2 Fan Logs

• http://mir-research.blogspot.com/2007/03/mir-research-project-omras2.html - This is Elias Pampalk's and Martin Gasser's blog entry about OMRAS2. Fun stuff, apparently we have fans.

-- KurtJx - 12 Apr 2007

Hey kurt, good call bringing over the links from your MIR pbwiki, except for the formatting differences (I think I fixed them all...) -- BenFields - 12 Apr 2007