Method & System for generation of music

player recommendation

BITS ZG628T: Mid Semester Report

By
Mohit Tanwar
ID No. 2013HT12298
Dissertation work to be carried out at
Samsung Research Institute, Delhi
Submitted in partial fulfillment of
M.TECH. Software Systems degree program
Under the Supervision of
Pradeep Singh Panwar, Domain Lead,
Media Solution Center, South West Asia
Samsung Research Institute, Delhi

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

PILANI (RAJASTHAN)

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division
Second Semester 2014-2015
BITS ZG628T: Mid Semester Report
Details of Work Done:
Task 1:
Identification of Music/Song Parameters i.e. Metadata Identification related to
Music / Song / Audio MP3 file
Songs / Audio MP3 files can be downloaded from Applications like Wynk/Gaana/Saavn.
Reason for downloading Audio MP3 files from these applications is that these are white
label applications which have direct contracts with Studios like T-Series, Sony Music, Zee
Music Entertainment etc. Metadata tags provided by each MP3 are rich and full of data,
which can be used for extraction of meaningful data from these metadata.
Metadata provided by each application
1. Song Name
2. Album Name
3. Singer(s) Name(s)
4. Label Name
5. Music Director
6. Lyricist(s)
7. Cast (Actors)
8. Song Duration (MM:SS)
9. Album Duration (MM:SS)
10. Song / Album Image Artwork
11. Genre
12. Mood
Examples
Song
Name
Manali
Trance

Album
Name
The
Shaukeens

Touch My
Body

Alone

Singers

Label

Yo Yo
Honey
Singh
Neha
Kakkar
Aditi
Singh
Sharma

Zee
Music

TSeries

Music
Director
Yo Yo
Honey
Singh

Lyricist

Cast

Sahil
Kaushal

Akshay
Kumar

Raghav
Sachar

Kumaar

Bipasha
Basu

Song
Duration
3:23

3:46

Now how can we obtain this data and store them. Well, there are many ways, but I
followed two ways.
1. Extraction of ID3 Tags from Downloaded Songs
2. Manually collect data for those audio mp3 whos ID3 Tags are not present.
ID3 Tags:
ID3 is a metadata container which is embedded with the MP3 audio file format. It has
information about song like title, artist, album, track number etc.
Extraction of these tags can be done using LINUX command line tool eyeD3.
MySQL Database:
In order to store these metadata, I have created simple Database with these tables.
Table1: Song Detail
Table2: Album
Table3: Artist
Table4: Genre

TASK 2:
Server application to provide REST APIs to access Songs Metadata and audio
file streaming.
Machine & Software Specifications:
CPU: Intel i3
RAM: 2GB
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Java JDK 1.7
Apache Tomcat 7.0
MySQL
Spring 4.1
High Level APIs
1. GET /getSongsList
2. GET /song/{songId}
3. GET /artist/{artistId}
4. GET /album/{albumId}
5. GET /play/{url}
6. PUT /event/{type}
Developments of REST APIs are in progress.

TASK 3:
Android Application development for the following:
1. Render Songs List
2. Show Song Detail
3. Play Song i.e. Music Player
4. Show Artist
5. Show Album
6. Provide User Events

A development of Android Application is also in progress.

Plan of work :
Date

Work Plan

Status

15-01-2015 to 15-02-2015

Identify music parameters e.g. ID3 Tags, Genre,

Moods etc.
Design Server Application.
Design Database for storing data.
Design Android application

DONE

16-02-2015 to 16-03-2015

Develop Server Application

Develop Android Application
Analysis of data captured from an application and
implement cleaning and preprocessing
algorithms.
Implement hypothetical model for algorithm/
solution to generate recommendations

IN PROGRESS

17-03-2015 to 30-03-2015

Perform test on recommendation generation and

correction of errors generated during the test
run.

PLANNED

References:
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http://www.gaana.com/
http://www.saavn.com/
http://get.wynk.in/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3
https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/
http://developer.android.com/index.html