Analogue recordings pose specific problems during automatic alignment, such as distortion due to physical degradation, or differences in tape speed during recording, copying, and digitization. Oftentimes, recordings are incomplete, exhibiting gaps with different lengths. In this paper we propose a method to align multiple digitized analogue recordings of same concerts of varying quality and song segmentations. The process includes the automatic construction of a reference concert timeline. We evaluate alignment methods on a synthetic dataset and apply our algorithm to real-world data.

Authors: Wilmering, Thomas; Thalmann, Florian; Sandler, Mark
Affiliation: Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
AES Convention: 147 (October 2019) Paper Number: 10271
Publication Date: October 8, 2019 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Posters: Applications in Audio
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