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that looks like rocket science stuff, i know i cant read or even understand it...isnt that just like the eq of the whole song?

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Seems to me that it's more oriented towards music-interested scientists than musicians. From what I can decode, the graphs are a way to identify structural similarities in a song (i.e., where the chorus is etc.). As the explaination says: "Time runs both horizontally and vertically. Low values (blue) indicate similarity, high values (red) indicate dissimilarity. Zero equals equivalence (zero distance). Repeated blue diagonal streaks, or repeated blue blocks, in a row or column indicate repeated material (such as a main theme, verse or chorus)."

Research like this may be useful when we want to indentify songs using computers. For example in applications like copy-protection and monitoring radio ratings (a'la Nielsen).

From an engineering point of view, it's interesting to read about how humans listen and interpret music. Search around for audio perception.

/TLV

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This sort of stuff really appeals to me. May even design a record sleeve for one of my tracks based on the graphs.

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Some people should be doing something better with their lives. I mean, who really gives a shit?

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