Music Genre Bars
This is an incremental contribution for music data visualization and user interface design.
The authors tackled the problem of visualizing and interacting with music datasets annotated by soft genres by proposing horizontally stacked bar charts, demonstrating their utility in a streaming application prototype for playlist selection.
Music Genres, as a popular meta-data of music, are very useful to organize, explore or search music datasets. Soft music genres are weighted multiple-genre annotations to songs. In this initial work, we propose horizontally stacked bar charts to represent a music dataset annotated by these soft music genres. For this purpose, we take an example of a toy dataset consisting of songs labelled with help of three music genres; Blues, Jazz and Country. We demonstrate how such a stacked bar chart can be used as a slider for user-input in an interface. We implement this by embedding this genre bar in a streaming application prototype and show its utility in choosing playlists. We finally conclude by proposing further work and future explorations on our proposed preliminary research.