I'm just finishing a project in the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) that involved creating a couple of new Vamp plugins from machine-learning models for music audio. MERT Vamp Plugin: a feature extractor for MERT audio features Vamp Lossy Encoding Detector: detect whether music audio has previously been encoded via lossy compression A Vamp plugin… Continue reading MERT Vamp Plugin, and a Lossy Encoding Detector
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On macOS “notarization”
I've spent altogether too long, at various moments in the past year or so, trying to understand the code-signing, runtime entitlements, and "notarization" requirements that are now involved when packaging software for Apple macOS 10.15 Catalina. (I put notarization in quotes because it doesn't carry the word's general meaning; it appears to be an Apple… Continue reading On macOS “notarization”
MIREX 2019 submissions
For the 2019 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, we at the Centre for Digital Music once again submitted a set of Vamp audio analysis plugins for evaluation. This is the seventh year in a row in which we've done so, and the fourth in which no completely new plugin has been… Continue reading MIREX 2019 submissions
MIREX 2018 submissions
The 2018 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, was the sixth in a row for which we at the Centre for Digital Music submitted a set of Vamp audio analysis plugins for evaluation. For the third year in a row, the set of plugins we submitted was entirely unchanged — these are… Continue reading MIREX 2018 submissions
MIREX 2017 submissions
For the fifth year in a row, this year the Centre for Digital Music submitted a number of Vamp audio analysis plugins to the MIREX evaluation for "music information retrieval" tasks. This year we submitted the same set of plugins as last year; there were no new implementations, and some of the existing ones are… Continue reading MIREX 2017 submissions
MIREX 2016 submissions
This year, for the fourth year in a row, we submitted a number of Vamp audio analysis plugins published by the Centre for Digital Music to the annual MIREX evaluation. The motivation is to give other methods a baseline to compare against, to compare one year's evaluation metrics and datasets against the next year's, and… Continue reading MIREX 2016 submissions
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