Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

• With my amateurish interest in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), I've taken on the task of analyzing the structure of songs using their waveforms/spectrograms.

• I found this site https://musicinformationretrieval.com/ to be very helpful in understanding the fundamentals. In addition, I suggest taking a look at the librosa documentation.

• I used the laplacian segmentation method of McFee and Ellis for analyzing song structure with spectral clustering.

• I applied the algorithm to the song Viva La Vida by Coldplay and I was able to detect the chorus and the intro in the song.

• To view the displayed videos and audio, please open the notebook in Colab.

• Feel free to try this method on other songs as well and suggest ways to generalize it to work on all kinds of songs!
  (Note: all you need to do is change the song_url).