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This paper describes a method for a WWW-based melody-retrieval system, takes a melody sung by a user as a search clue and sent over the Internet and uses it to retrieve the song’s title from a music database of standard MIDI files(SMF). It was difficult to build a melody-retrieval service with a large database and with a lot of user accesses since it was quite difficult to build a system which could achieve both quick search and high matching accuracy. We propose a method of a scalable melody-retrieval system which achieves 70% matching accuracy against more than 20,000 pieces of music and its search time is within a few seconds.
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Sonoda, T., Ikenaga, T., Shimizu, K., Muraoka, Y. (2003). A Melody-Retrieval System on Parallelized Computers. In: Nakatsu, R., Hoshino, J. (eds) Entertainment Computing. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 112. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35660-0_32
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