Lyricon: A Visual Music Selection Interface Featuring Multiple Icons

This paper presents "Lyricon", a technique that automatically selects multiple icons of tunes block-by-block, and effectively displays the icons. Here, Lyricon selects icons based on not only musical features, but also lyrical keywords. In other words, Lyricon can reflect not only the features of the tunes but also the story of lyrics on its icon selection. Users can understand both impression of the sounds and the content of the lyrics, and they can choose songs which is suitable for their feeling based on the visual impression of the icons. Besides, embedding Lyricon on GUIs of music players is convenient to play specific parts of songs.