Beat Browser

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Goldenson, Jeffrey D
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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Christopher Schmandt.
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Abstract
Beat Browser is a music browsing environment that delivers immediate audio feedback while browsing arbitrarily large music collections. The goal of Beat Browser is to give users a sense of exploring "live" and continuous audio while rapidly moving between sources by mouse. It appears their entire universe of music is playing all the time, whether they're there listening or not. Beat Browser's Universal Time Base architecture keeps a central clock running that manages the playback position of every piece of music launclied, orchestrating this perceptual illusion.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2007.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53).
 
Date issued
2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41741
Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
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