Organization of Personal Music Collections - Bibliography

Bull, Michael. 2005. No Dead Air! The iPod and the culture of mobile listening. Leisure Studies 24 (4): 343-55.
An interesting look at how people use their iPods to change their worlds, and how the way they associate with music is changing.

Corthaut, Nik, Govaerts, Sten, and Erik Duval. 2006. Moody Tunes: The Rockanango project. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Describes a system designed to choose music based on mood, especially tailored towards those in the Hotel, Restaurant and Café sectors.

Cunningham, Sally Jo, David Bainbridge, and Annette Falconer. 2006. 'More of an art than a science': Supporting the creation of playlists and mixes. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Presents an overview of software elements that people find useful when creating playlists and mixes, and presents findings based on postings to an online mix website, http://www.artofthemix.org

Cunningham, Sally Jo, Matt Jones, and Steve Jones. 2004. Organizing digital music for use: An examination of personal music collections. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain.
Presents a user study of how people organize their music collections, with a particular emphasis on physical item collections.

Haake, Anneli Beronius. 2006. Music listening practices in workplace settings in the Uk: An exploratory survey of office-based settings. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy.
A study conducted to examine the use of music in office environments and how that contributes to personal well-being.

Kim, Ja-Young, and Nicholas J. Belkin. 2002. Categories of music description and search terms and phrases used by non-music experts. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Paris, France.
Presents findings of a study of users asked to assign words to classical music pieces, and correlate them with terms other users would use to search for them.

Pauws, Steffen, and Barry Eggen. 2002. PATS: Realization and user evaluation of an automatic playlist generator. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Paris, France.
Gives results of a user study based on an automatic playlist generator, PATS.

Schwartz, John. 2004. To know me, know my iPod. The New York Times. Available online (Accessed 15 March, 2007).
Opinion piece on how music on a personal music device can tell others about you and may present different views of your personality that may not be readily apparent.

Torrens, Marc, Patrick Hertzog, and Josep-Lluis Arcos. 2004. Visualizing and exploring personal music libraries. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain.
Presents methods of visualizing music libraries in order to provide users with further analysis of their music collection and draw connections between items in their playlists.

Vignoli, Fabio. 2004. Digital music interaction concepts: A user study. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain.
Describes methods users use to access their personal music collections in order to design new ways for users to interact with their digital music collections.

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