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Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

On Nov 3, 10:20*pm, Joe Strout <j...@strout.netwrote:
We've got a need to generate short "samples" of songs that are in MIDI *
format, to provide a preview function in a web app. *We'd like to do *
something more clever than just taking the middle 20 seconds (or *
whatever) of the song -- ideally, we'd like to find the chorus, since *
that's likely to be the most easily recognized part of the song.

I believe this could be done fairly reliably by looking for patterns *
in the MIDI file, though I'm sure there are plenty of complications to *
this simple idea.
Hi Joe, nice to hear from you from earlier discussion.

Would it be applicable to mark one chorus by hand, and the program
finds all the others?
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