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An overwhelming majority (82%) report that they enjoy using SV. Usage is truly international, with users from 66 countries including the USA (32%), UK (25%), Germany (10%) and France (8%).
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In a survey of 821 users ( to ), 49% reported that they were non-academic users, using it as a professional (9%) or for personal use (40%). Sonic Visualiser is available for Linux, Mac OS/X and Windows, and has been downloaded over 330,000 times since its release in 2007 (SourceForge and .uk download statistics, June 2013). chord analysis, beat tracking, audio segmentation) in the form of “plugins”.

It is an easy-to-use application for viewing and analysing the contents of musical audio files, incorporating a wide range of our music informatics research (e.g.

Sonic Visualiser (SV) Sonic Visualiser is one of our open-source tools. In Nov 2011 Isophonics was selected as one of eight European music-tech startups to be invited to pitch to a panel of judges at “TechPitch4.5”, held at EMI Music headquarters. Our website, which also hosts videos and screencasts of demos, receives some 1500 visitors/month (Google Analytics).
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To make our Music Informatics research available to as many potential users as possible, we release many open source software tools. The research has had an economic impact, and an impact on society, culture and creativity. According to EPSRC’s 2010 “ Programme landscapes” for ICT, C4DM is one of the top 5 centres in “People and Interactivity,” and in EPSRC’s Music and Acoustic Technology area, C4DM is the largest of the “ Current Major EPSRC Research Investments”. This research – sometimes also known as Music Information Retrieval, Semantic Audio or Intelligent Audio – investigates methods to extract semantic information from musical audio files, and use this extracted information in the production, distribution and consumption of music. This Case Study focuses on research undertaken in the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) into Music Informatics.
