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Panos Kudumakis, 2015-05-13 03:35 PM
MPEG-A: Interactive Music Application Format
Sonic Visualiser with IM AF support featuring automatic chords extraction aligned in time with lyrics:
Source code
Executable for windows & mac os/x
La fuga an IM AF (.ima) song
Spanish pop band 'Diɘcinueve', featured in TV and press, is the first band to use Sonic Visualiser with IM AF support that lets music fans remix and share the group's latest single 'La fuga' in endless new forms. Thanks to Emilio Molina Martínez.
HTML5 IM AF Player ver. 1 by Giacomo Herrero.
Featuring lyrics & album picture.
HTML5 IM AF Player ver. 2 by Luke Barlow.
Featuring robustness & zoom in/out.
"HTML5 IM AF Player ver. 3" by Colin Gunder Dodds.
Featuring chords extraction & uploading your own re-mixes.
- Lyrics extraction and/or highlighting for karaoke apps
- Rights tracking for fair artists remuneration
- Dynamic adaptive audio streaming
- 3D audio mixing
- Second screen music recommendation
- Vocaloid animation
If you would like to involve in this project please contact p.kudumakis at qmul.ac.uk
Projects by students
- Eugenio Oñate (C4DM)
IM AF Encoder: Multi-track audio
Proof of concept
MSc Thesis, Aug. 2012
DMRN+7 Paper, Dec. 2012
- Costantino Taglialatela (C4DM visitor)
IM AF Encoder: Still Pictures, Rules, Presets, Groups, EQ
Integration in Sonic Visualiser
BSc Thesis, Jul. 2013
53rd AES Paper, Jan. 2014
- Jesús C. García (Univ. of Malaga)
IM AF Codec: Lyrics, Metadata, Dynamic Volume, URL
Integration in Sonic Visualiser
BSc Thesis, Jun. 2014 - in Spanish
53rd AES Paper, Jan. 2014
- Giacomo Herrero (Univ. of Malaga)
An HTML5 IM AF Player
On-line demos: Serverside / Clientside
CMMR'13 Paper, Oct. 2013
Related publications
- Jesús C. García, Panos Kudumakis, Isabel Barbancho, Lorenzo J. Tardón and Mark Sandler, 'Enabling interactive and interoperable semantic music applications', Springer Handbook for Systematic Musicology, Apr. 2014. In press.
- Panos Kudumakis, Inseon Jang and Mark Sandler, 'A New Interactive MPEG Format for the Music Industry', 7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR'10), Málaga, Spain, 21-24 June, 2010.