Content Management  for EMD:
What is “Interesting” Music ?

EMD: a Mapping problem
Millions of music titles, billions of users

EMD: a Mapping problem
Traditional Solution

EMD: a Mapping problem
New Solution ?

EMD: What are the Issues ?

Is User Requirement Possible ?

User Requirements ?

Research Areas at CSL

Extracting Features

Rhythm Extraction

First Step

Extraction

Extracting Features: Genre

Sources of data

Data Mining and Music Genre

Data Mining and Music Genre (Ctd)

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Music retrieval: the sequence approach

Musical descriptors ?

Mpeg7 : Spectal Descriptors

The Database (excerpt)

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A Solution

Problem Complexity

Constraint Satisfaction

Global Constraints

Music Exploration: the Personal Radio Project

Personal Radio

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Conclusion