MPEG Developments

MPEG-A: Interactive Music Application Format

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 Conference Paper, Jan. 2014

• Jesús C. García (Univ. of Malaga)
  IM AF Codec: Lyrics, Metadata, Dynamic Volume, URL
  Integration in Sonic Visualiser
  BSc Thesis, Dec. 2013
  53rd AES Conference Paper, Jan. 2014

Access the SV with IM AF support source code at:
hg clone https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/hg/sonic-visualiser
hg update imaf_enc
Access the SV with IM AF support executable at:

Access an .ima file at: La fuga de logan
(We would like to thank Emilio Molina Martinez (Univ. of Malaga) who kindly offer us his
Song: "La fuga de logan" of the Album: "Sigue la luz" performed by the Band: "Diɘcinueve"
in a multi-track form for demonstrating the IM AF codec)

• 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, Costantino Taglialatela, Panos Kudumakis, Lorenzo J. Tardón, Isabel Barbancho and Mark Sandler, 'Interactive music applications by MPEG-A support in Sonic Visualiser', AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio, London, UK, 27-29 Jan. 2014.

• Giacomo Herrero, Panos Kudumakis, Lorenzo J. Tardon, Isabel Barbancho, Mark Sandler, 'An HTML5 Interactive (MPEG-A IM AF) Music Player', 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR'13), Marseille, France, 15-18 Oct. 2013.

• Rebecca Stewart, Panos Kudumakis, and Mark Sandler, 'Interactive Music Applications and Standards', in 'Exploring Music Contents', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 20-30, Vol. 6684, Springer Berlin Heidelberg (ISBN 978-3-642-23125-4), August 2011. Editors: S. Ystad, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet & K. Jensen.

• Panos Kudumakis, 'MP3: something's gotta change!', in 'Audio! Magazine', pp. 6, Vol. 1, Issue 3, April 2011. Editors: Paul Curzon, Mathieu Barthet and Simon Dixon.

• Inseon Jang, Panos Kudumakis, Mark Sandler, Kyeongok Kang, 'The MPEG Interactive Music Application Format Standard', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 150-154, Vol. 28, Issue 1, Jan. 2011.

• 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.