A Combinatorial Approach to Content-Based Music Selection

Advances in networking and transmission of digital multimedia data will bring soon huge catalogues of music to users. Accessing these catalogues raises a problem for users and content providers, that we define as the music selection problem. We introduce three main goals to be satisfied in music selection: match user preferences, provide users with new music, and exploit the catalogue in an optimal fashion. We propose a novel approach to music selection, based on computing coherent sequences of music titles, and show that this amounts to solving a combinatorial pattern generation problem. We propose constraint satisfaction techniques to solve it. The resulting system is an enabling technology to build better music delivery services.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: François Pachet, Pierre Roy, Daniel Cazaly
• Keywords: Better Music Delivery, ICMCS 1999, Multimedia, Music Selection, Music Selection Problem