Song length adjustment

摘要

A system for automatic rearrangement of a musical composition includes a process of assigning metadata to an existing piece of music to divide it into sections and identify sections of the same type, and logic to remove and rearrange sections to produced a customized playback with a desired duration and additional options for including or removing specific sections or instruments under the control of a user.

主权项

1. A method for increasing the duration of a pre-existing recording of a musical composition comprising:
accessing a recording of a musical composition, the recording having a duration with an initial length, data identifying a wanted length for a rearrangement of the musical composition, partition metadata partitioning the recording of the composition into a sequence of sections, and classification metadata classifying sections in the sequence according to musical content using a data processor; and producing a rearrangement of the composition using logic executed by the data processor, the rearrangement having an increased duration, which adds a repeating series of consecutive sections in the sequence according to the classification metadata, such that the rearrangement has the increased duration according to the wanted length.