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The source code repository for MaART has now been migrated to Subversion. It is a fairly raw conversion using cvs2svn but is good enough.

The Music and Audio Retrieval Tools (MaART) project is a set of software components used to investigate and implement retrieval / searching of music and audio. This release features: midi2dat, a tool which converts a midi file into a piano-roll matrix; chroma feature representation added to wave2mfcc; musical part classification added to midicut; several clustering and dimension-reduction tools. A binary package is available for MS Windows and a source package for other platforms. The source code release now includes project / solution files to compile MaART with Microsoft Visual C++ Express.... read more

The Music and Audio Retrieval Tools (MaART) project is a set of software components used to investigate and implement retrieval / searching of music and audio. This release features: the first version of the album summariser (condense); mpglib and a utility to convert an mp3 file to a wave file; a basic wave to midi converter; improved documentation on the setting up MaART on a web server (with automated indexing of Usenet files). A binary package is available for MS Windows and a source package for other platforms.

The remit of MaART covers content-based and meta-data based solutions, segmentation and content selection (summarisation) of audio and music. First iterations are based on MIDI but digital audio (MP3 and WAV) extensions are in progress. The long-term aim is to produce an online audio search engine with the usability and effectiveness of Internet search engines for text, such as Google.

The more information and downloads are available from the project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maart/

The Music and Audio Retrieval Tools (MaART) project is a set of software components used to investigate and implement retrieval / searching of music and audio. This release features: a tool for managing collections of MIDI files (identifying duplicates); a tool to generate Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) from wave files; pre-generated documentation of the source code. Build files for Dev-C++ have been added and used to create a package of binaries for MS Windows.

The remit of MaART covers content-based and meta-data based solutions, segmentation and content selection (summarisation) of audio and music. First iterations are based on MIDI but digital audio (MP3 and WAV) extensions are in progress. The long-term aim is to produce an online audio search engine with the usability and effectiveness of Internet search engines for text, such as Google.

The more information and downloads are available from the project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maart/

The Music and Audio Retrieval Tools (MaART) project is a set of software components used to investigate and implement retrieval / searching of music and audio. This latest release features a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to search a database and a piano keyboard Java applet with which to submit a musical query. A novel "ribbon" query applet and SOAP interface (using gSOAP) are also added. A wave library (and sample tools), a simple bitmap library (with dat2bmp to plot the output of miditexture), and a few more MIDI tools completes this release.... read more

The Music and Audio Retrieval Tools (MaART) project is a set of software components used to investigate and implement retrieval / searching of music and audio. This initial release has enough functionality to index and search a collection of MIDI files. A set of tools which work which clean/print/extract text from and automatically summarise MIDI files is included.

The remit of MaART covers content-based and meta-data based solutions, segmentation and content selection (summarisation) of audio and music. First iterations are based on MIDI but digital audio (MP3 and WAV) extensions are planned. The final goal is to produce an online audio search engine with the usability and effectiveness of Internet search engines for text, such as Google. ... read more