Classifying music samples (MP3/WAV/...)
Paul Ashton (paul666 nospam at mailandnews.com)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:32:50 +0100
It seems to me that there has to be a better way to classify music
than to rely on a CD TOC. How hard would it be to perform
some sound analysis of the underlying waveform, extract some
fundemental characteristics and then use those as the key
to a database? Granted, it's not going to be very simple, but
is a lot simpler than, say, voice recognition.
For example,
Record the time of the first N pitch/power/volume peaks.
Surely someone must have done something like this already?
Paul
ps. Some Linux sound analysis links can be found here:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/speech.html