FEATURE MUSIC COMPOSITION SOFTWARE

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
POWER HAND	Toontrack Music AB	Verkstadsgatan 13 Umea 90432 Sweden	A feature of computer software for processing digital music files; a feature of music-composition software;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A system and method for determining the similarity of music files based on a perceptual metric is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic components are generated for each of the music files. The dimensionality of the components is then reduced to six by a mapper. This reduction is part of what allows the present invention to process large collections of music files very quickly. The mapper maps the components to positions on two-dimensional feature maps. The feature maps are trained by a trainer. The top N positions in each feature map, along with their amplitudes, are taken as the representative vectors for the music files. To compare the similarity between two music files, the distance between the two representative vectors are calculated.