The amblr: A mobile spatial audio music browser

Music collections are often visualized in a two-dimensional space to show relationships between songs. Some user inter faces interacting with these two-dimensional maps of songs use spatial auditory display to allow easier access to the au dio content. A common auditory display is to have multiple songs playing simultaneously from differing spatial locations around the user. However, when using this style of interface the sonification of the collection needs to be limited to a lo cal subset of the collection, usually three to six songs. This paper presents the amblr, a spatial audio music browser that allows a user to auralize the collection. It combines effective design from previous work with new approaches to create a novel interface. This allows for a more intuitive navigation of a virtual space populated by a large collection songs without relying on textual metadata.