ABSTRACT

This chapter’s author started to investigate music signal processing whilst being a member of a mobile phone manufacturer’s corporate research unit. During the early 2000s, mobile phone devices were beginning to be equipped with music players and large enough flash storage in order to accommodate music collections that were hard to sort and navigate. Our idea was to utilize music signal processing techniques to help present the contents of a music collection on a mobile device somehow taking account of the listening experience connected to each track, i.e. provide the user with a personalized set of track lists that are generated automatically. This will be the topic of this chapter.