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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>There are many problems in the musical signal domain that have not been solved yet. Among such problems are automatic recognition and editing of musical sound patterns, retrieval of audio material, detection of transient states, and articulation features in sounds. It seems that the key challenge is in building inexpensive browsers to retrieve audio material contained in multimedia bases and Internet sites. This overview shows motivation and intermediate and long‐term goals of the research projects that have conducted for several years in the Multimedia Systems Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.</jats:p>