We've got a need to generate short "samples" of songs that are in MIDI
format, to provide a preview function in a web app. We'd like to do
something more clever than just taking the middle 20 seconds (or
whatever) of the song -- ideally, we'd like to find the chorus, since
that's likely to be the most easily recognized part of the song.
I believe this could be done fairly reliably by looking for patterns
in the MIDI file, though I'm sure there are plenty of complications to
this simple idea.
So:
1. I see at <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic> there are
quite a few MIDI libraries for Python. Are any of them particularly
well suited to this task?
2. Anybody have an interest in music theory, as well as mad Python
skills? Want a paying contract job? If so, please contact me off-
list. I'd enjoy pursuing this myself, but if you think you can do a
better job at a reasonable rate, I'm happy to let you do so.
Thanks,
- Joe
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