Background

SearchSounds 2.0 is a music web search engine. Originally developed by Dr. Òscar Celma, SearchSounds has been completely rewritten by Dr. Mohamed Sordo and now it offers more and exciting new features.

Full details of the web-based system can be found in the following papers:

• Ò. Celma, P. Cano & P. Herrera, "Search Sounds An audio crawler focused on weblogs", 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR).
• M. Sordo, Ò. Celma, & C. Laurier, "QueryBag: Using Different Sources For Querying Large Music Collections", Conference of the International Society for Music Information Research (ISMIR 2009), Demo session.
• M. Sordo, "Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A computational Approach", PhD thesis

We would highly appreciate if scientific publications of works partly based on SearchSounds cite the publications above.

Description

SearchSounds allows a user to search and browse music using tags, audio content-based similarity and (more interestingly) to combine both sources (audio+tags). The pool of queries is kept in the query bag, where a user can keep track of what he/she has been querying. Once a query is performed, the user is given a list of song items.

Each song item consists of:

• A song title (if available in the id3 tags of the original audio track).
• A progress bar that shows the hit score of the item.
• A button to add the song to the playlist in the left panel.
• A button to read the original blog post with highlighted tags extracted from the text.
• A button to search for similar songs.
• An audio player (from http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone/).
• A tag cloud. The different color backgrounds represent different facets of music.

And the good thing is that the music database is updated every day!

Graphical User Interface

Acknowledgments

The related research was partially funded by the SIMAC (Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents) project, European Commission 507142; IST-2.3.1.7. and VARIAZIONI (Collaborative Authoring of Localized Cultural Heritage Contents over the Next Generation of Mashup Web Services) project, eContentplus Programme CEP Content Enrichment Project (ref. ECP-2005-CULT-038264).