Beschreibung:
Recently there are many studies of subjective music similarity for music information retrieval. To quantify the subjective music similarity, there are many factors to take into account. In this study the individuality of the subjective similarity was focused on. To analyze the individuality of the subjective similarity, subjective evaluation data for 200 pairs of RWC popular music database was collected. 28 subjects listened to the pairs of tracks, and evaluated similarity of each pair by similar or dissimilar. They also selected the components of music (melody, tempo/rhythm, vocal, instruments) that was similar. Each subject evaluated the same 200 pairs, thus the individuality of the evaluation can be easily analyzed. The results of pilot analysis were reported.