Sonic Annotator

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A batch tool for audio feature extraction

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Sonic Annotator is a batch tool for feature extraction and Chris@82: annotation of audio files using Vamp Chris@82: plugins.

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Sonic Annotator can use any installed Vamp plugin to process Chris@82: a wide range of audio file types, loading audio data either from Chris@82: the local filesystem or from http or ftp URLs on the Internet. Chris@82: It can then write the results in RDF or comma-separated text Chris@82: formats.

Chris@82: Chris@82: Freehand sketch depicting Sonic Annotator's place in a semantic web world

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Sonic Annotator was originally developed in 2009 at Queen Chris@82: Mary, University of London as part of the OMRAS2 project, to facilitate Chris@82: feature data publication on the Semantic Web. It has since been Chris@82: used in a number of audio annotation projects and to power Chris@82: online audio feature retrieval APIs.

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Sonic Annotator is Free Software published under the GNU Chris@82: General Public License.

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Download the current version of Sonic Annotator — binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows, or source code;
Read our quick tutorial about how to use Sonic Annotator;
Read an early document describing more about the purpose and design of Sonic Annotator.

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Citations: If you are using Sonic Annotator in research work for publication, please cite (pdf | bib) Chris Cannam, Michael O. Jewell, Christophe Rhodes, Mark Sandler, and Mark d'Inverno, Linked Data and You: Bringing music research software into the Semantic Web, Journal of New Music Research, volume 39, no. 4, pp. 313-325, 2010.

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Developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.

Partially funded by the EPSRC through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1.

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