Disassertion Report

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Method & System for generation of music player recommendation

BITS ZG628T: Mid Semester Report

By

Mohit Tanwar

ID No. 2013HT12298

Dissertation work to be carried out at

Samsung Research Institute, Delhi

Submitted in partial fulfillment of

M.TECH. Software Systems degree program

Under the Supervision of

Pradeep Singh Panwar, Domain Lead, Media Solution Center, South West Asia

Samsung Research Institute, Delhi

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

PILANI (RAJASTHAN)

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Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division

Second Semester 2014-2015

BITS ZG628T: Mid Semester Report

Details of Work Done:

Task 1:

Identification of Music/Song Parameters i.e. Metadata Identification related to

Music / Song / Audio MP3 file

Songs / Audio MP3 files can be downloaded from Applications like Wynk/Gaana/Saavn.

Reason for downloading Audio MP3 files from these applications is that these are white

label applications which have direct contracts with Studios like T-Series, Sony Music, Zee

Music Entertainment etc. Metadata tags provided by each MP3 are rich and full of data,

which can be used for extraction of meaningful data from these metadata.

Metadata provided by each application

1. Song Name

2. Album Name

3. Singer(s) Name(s)

4. Label Name

5. Music Director

6. Lyricist(s)

7. Cast (Actors)

8. Song Duration (MM:SS)

9. Album Duration (MM:SS)

10. Song / Album Image Artwork

11. Genre

12. Mood

Examples

Song

Name

Album

Name

Singers Label Music

Director

Lyricist Cast Song

Duration

Manali

Trance

The

Shaukeens

Yo Yo

Honey

Singh

Neha

Kakkar

Zee

Music

Yo Yo

Honey

Singh

Sahil

Kaushal

Akshay

Kumar

3:23

Touch My

Body

Alone Aditi

Singh

Sharma

T-

Series

Raghav

Sachar

Kumaar Bipasha

Basu

3:46

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Now how can we obtain this data and store them. Well, there are many ways, but I

followed two ways.

1. Extraction of ID3 Tags from Downloaded Songs

2. Manually collect data for those audio mp3 whos ID3 Tags are not present.

ID3 Tags:

ID3 is a metadata container which is embedded with the MP3 audio file format. It has

information about song like title, artist, album, track number etc.

Extraction of these tags can be done using LINUX command line tool eyeD3.

MySQL Database:

In order to store these metadata, I have created simple Database with these tables.

Table1: Song Detail

Table2: Album

Table3: Artist

Table4: Genre

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TASK 2:

Server application to provide REST APIs to access Songs Metadata and audio

file streaming.

Machine & Software Specifications:

CPU: Intel i3

RAM: 2GB

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Java JDK 1.7

Apache Tomcat 7.0

MySQL

Spring 4.1

High Level APIs

1. GET /getSongsList

2. GET /song/{songId}

3. GET /artist/{artistId}

4. GET /album/{albumId}

5. GET /play/{url}

6. PUT /event/{type}

Developments of REST APIs are in progress.

TASK 3:

Android Application development for the following:

1. Render Songs List

2. Show Song Detail

3. Play Song i.e. Music Player

4. Show Artist

5. Show Album

6. Provide User Events

A development of Android Application is also in progress.

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Plan of work :

Date Work Plan Status

15-01-2015 to 15-02-2015

Identify music parameters e.g. ID3 Tags, Genre,

Moods etc.

Design Server Application. Design Database for storing data.

Design Android application

DONE

16-02-2015 to 16-03-2015

Develop Server Application

Develop Android Application Analysis of data captured from an application and

implement cleaning and preprocessing algorithms.

Implement hypothetical model for algorithm/

solution to generate recommendations

IN PROGRESS

17-03-2015 to 30-03-2015

Perform test on recommendation generation and

correction of errors generated during the test run.

PLANNED

References:

1. http://www.gaana.com/

2. http://www.saavn.com/ 3. http://get.wynk.in/

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3 5. https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/

6. http://developer.android.com/index.html

http://www.gaana.com/http://www.saavn.com/http://get.wynk.in/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/http://developer.android.com/index.html