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A Music Player That Discovers Structure and Rhythm in Songs

Alan Cross 0 Comments

It’s called Songle (pronounced SONG-lee) and is a product of the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute in Japan.

When you use it to play a digital track, it analyzes it and displays chords, beats and melodies.  Need to know the chord progressions?  Want to skip to the chorus.  Piece of cake.

Here, for example, is a screen shot of a Songle deconstruction of Tool’s “Lateralus.”

Read more about Songle at Wired.

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