Beat This

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Music Samples

NOTE: All songs are have been converted from wav files to RealMedia files so that they can be quickly streamed online.

Please TURN UP THE VOLUME as these songs are very quiet.

Set #1:

• Original Tracks: Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket   Piano Concerto
• Combined: Cake+Concerto


Set #2:

• Original Tracks: Bamboleo   fast rock backbeat
• Combined: Bamboleo+backbeat


Set #3:

• Original Tracks: Axelf   Michael Jackson - Beat It
• Combined: Axelf+BeatIt

As expected, our algorithm performed flawlessly. To the human ear, our output songs sound synchronized in both tempo and phase. We discovered that the aesthetic quality of our output was only slightly improved when a song was combined with a backbeat rather than with another song.

Shown below is a table comparing the output of the beat detection algorithm with human-ear beat detection (with the aid of a digital metronome).