Music Indexing & Characterization

• artist's name & title poor access method
  
  
• 1) proprietary approach
  
  
• 2) non-proprietary net-wide indexing (preferred)
  
  
• music web crawlers/bots for audio files .wav .mp3 ...
  
  
• enabling technology for music characterization:
  
  
  • music/non-music determination
  • vocal/non-vocal determination
  • language determination
  • quality determination (stereo/mono; low/high bandwidth)
  • style determination
  • tempo determination
  • genre determination
  • instrumentation determination
  • mood/emotion determination