Music recommender systems typically offer a “one-size-fits-all” approach with the same user
controls and visualizations for all users. However, the effectiveness of interactive interfaces …

The steep rise in music downloading over CD sales has created a major shift in the music
industry away from physical media formats and towards online products and services. Music …

Digital methods are increasingly applied to store, structure and analyse vast amounts of
musical data. In this context, visualization plays a crucial role, as it assists musicologists and …

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

During the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift in how music is produced,
distributed, and consumed. A combination of advances in digital storage, audio …

We present a novel, innovative user interface to music repositories. Given an arbitrary
collection of digital music files, our system creates a virtual landscape which allows the user …

This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user
unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With …

Recommender systems aim at supporting users in their search and decision making process
by selecting a small number of likely relevant items from a large set of options. Although …

Timbre distance and similarity are expressions of the phenomenon that some music appears
similar while other songs sound very different to us. The notion of genre is often used to …