Music information retrieval serves both casual listeners and music professionals needing structured database queries

Evidence

Music information retrieval (MIR) is the area where the strategies for enabling access to music collections, both new and historical, are developed in order to keep up with the expectations of search and browse functionality. These techniques are interesting to end users of music, since they would enable someone to find and use music in a personalized way. Also, different professionals in music, such as music performers, teachers, musicologists, copyright lawyers, and music producers would benefit from the ability to make such structured queries of music databases (Casey et al., 2008). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2578

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines music information retrieval (MIR) and who its stakeholders are.