Visually and Acoustically Exploring the High-Dimensional Space of Music

The permanent growth of personal music collections caused by the ongoing digital revolution asks for novel ways of organization. Traditional list based approaches are - particularly for use in mobile devices - no longer appropriate. In this paper we discuss two alternative exploration schemes, both taking advantage of a recently proposed high-dimensional music similarity space. First, we present an interface that facilitates visual navigation through a collection. Then, we propose the use of an acoustic approach, which adapts to the user´s taste. The proposed solutions have been integrated into an Android based prototype application. The conducted user experiments indicate that both methods outperform alternative approaches that head into similar directions.