= The cacophonies Chia-tung Chen (Drums) Feihong Wang (Keyboard) Luis Francisco-Revilla (Vocals) Gaurav Maini (Guitar)

Introduction What is MUSE? –Is a Digital Library that provides full-text retrieval of a collection of songs –Uses mg at the back end

Motivation Almost everyone has an MP3 collection that is growing and is treasured Searching for MP3s is a painful job, since the search is generally by filename On the Web, typically it is necessary to execute separate searches in order to get lyrics and/or audio files

The Collection A set of MP3 files that have lyrics embedded as a Lyrics3 tag and meta- information embedded as an ID3 tag

The Project Allows a full text index on the lyrics and meta-information of the songs using mg Provides searching and browsing capabilities on the collection

The Meta-Information Title Artist Album Genre Tempo Mood Situation

Meta-Information (contd.)

Document Structure 777title777Always 777artist777Bon 777artist777Jovi 777album777Cross 777album777Road 777genre777Rock 777tempo777Moderate 777mood777Morose 777situation777Heartbreak --> Always Bon Jovi This romeo is bleeding, but you can't see his blood

System Architecture mg CGI Interface

Server CGI Implemented in C Linux and Unix

Searching Functionality Boolean and Ranked Queries Automatic detection of Boolean and Ranked queries Boolean operators –| is the OR character –& is the AND character KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)

Browsing Functionality Catalogues –Genre –Tempo –Mood –Situation

Using the System The M U S E has arrived !

QUESTIONS If there is a question, there is an answer