The Musical Technology Group from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, released a new version (0.3.1) of CLAM Music Annotator, a GPL scientific tool for analysis and musical annotation. The purpose of the project is supervise and correct the results of automated audio-feature extraction algorithms and generate manually edited annotations of audio as training examples or ground truth for those algorithms.
This new version features a chord detector, made in collaboration with the Queen Mary University of London, which can analyze ogg, mp3 and wav files using the Christopher Harte algorithm with some minor variations. Results are presented in user-friendly screens.
Music Annotator is build around CLAM, a C++ Library for Audio and Music. Binaries for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X are available at download section of project homepage.
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I have an Audigy 2ZS sound card & software. I am trying to find out how “Music Analyzer” works, and what the numbers mean. It is a good idea, and sounds fairly good, but it does some incomprehensible things. Days or weeks after I record something, the music disappears from the file, and won’t play.
The analyzer gives numbers “-1″ yet the program refuses to accept that number.
I analyze 1300 selections, and two weeks later the program starts all over again at No. 250, and re-evaluates 1100 selections.
Some selections it analyzes and instead of a number, records it as “unknown”.
The Creative help file contains no information what-so-ever on the Music Analyzer, and their web site won’t even entertain any questions. Is there anybody out in the wide world who who has knowlege of this program? Thank you.