MPEG Developments

!>https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/807/Malaga_z3770.jpg(Invited talk on IM AF by Panos Kudumakis, Malaga, Spain 11 April 2013)!

*MPEG-A: Interactive Music Application Format*

Sonic Visualiser with IM AF support featuring automatic chords extraction aligned in time with lyrics: 

"Source code":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sv-imaf-enc

"Executable":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sv-imaf-enc/files for windows & mac os/x

"La fuga":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/871/La%20fuga%20de%20logan.ima 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 (lyrics, still image)":http://www.giacomoherrero.com/clientside/ by Giacomo Herrero. 

"HTML5 IM AF Player ver. 2 (zoom in/out, faster)":http://forkaudio.org/wemix/imaf.html by Luke Barlow.

 HTML5 IM AF Player ver. 3 (chords   extraction) by Colin Gunder Dodds.

Soon to be able to upload your own re-mixes.

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":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/enc-imaf/repository/raw/IM_AF%20Report/Development%20of%20an%20IM%20AF%20Encoder.pdf

"DMRN+7 Paper, Dec. 2012":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/enc-imaf/repository/raw/IM_AF%20Report/IMAF%20Paper.pdf

* Costantino Taglialatela (C4DM visitor)

IM AF Encoder: Still Pictures, Rules, Presets, Groups, EQ

Integration in Sonic Visualiser

"BSc Thesis, Jul. 2013":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/801/TESI_TAGLIALATELA.pdf

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 

* Giacomo Herrero (Univ. of Malaga)

An HTML5 IM AF Player 

On-line demos: "Serverside":http://www.giacomoherrero.com/serverside/ / "Clientside":http://www.giacomoherrero.com/clientside/

"CMMR'13 Paper, Oct. 2013":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/802/CMMR13.pdf

*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.":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/802/CMMR13.pdf

* 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.":http://www.cs4fn.org/music/magazine/audioissue3.pdf 

* "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.":https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/816/IEEESPMagazineJan2011.pdf

* 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.