A software system for comparing music is discussed, designed and implemented. The system extracts feature from a group of songs, compares all pairs, and visually represents the relationships between the songs in a way that can be manipulated by the user. The end result achieved is a proof of concept. The method being used, comparing songs based on the relative average intensity of various frequencies, produces a better measure of similarity than a purely random distribution.

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Creator

• Laverty, Stephen William
• Booker, Robert Louis

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02D003M

Advisor

• Ward, Matthew O.

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright