OMRAS: Online Music Recognition and Searching
OMRAS is a system for the efficient content-based searching and retrieval of musical information from online databases stored in a variety of formats ranging from encoded scores to digital audio. The system will be easily operated by users with a wide range of musical ability and understanding and will be controlled by a simple-to-use graphical 'musical' interface, both for search queries and for the presentation of results. The musical databases might range from a modest collection of score-files stored on a single hard disk for an individual research project, to the 'collection' of the countless MIDI- or audio-files accessible via the Internet.