![]() The timestamped closed-captionsĪvailable on these videos are then compared to lyrics found on Genius (acquired via the Genius Lyrics API) videos do not containīlacklisted terms either in their video title, video description title, channel name, or channel description) and contain closed-captions. Search YouTube using logic modified from usetube for applicable videos that meet certain minimum standards (e.g.Mashup creation a more streamlined effort. Songs with a time signature other thanĤ/4 (common time) are excluded since 4/4 time is by far the most popular time signature and to make Song ID (noting the song's tempo, key, and mode, in addition to the track name and artist name). ![]() Use the Spotify Web API to get an audio analysis for every track on the Billboard chart with a Spotify.Scrape regular Billboard charts via a CRON job set up via node-cron every Wednesday and greatest-of-all-time Billboard charts on the first Sunday of every month.Remove any old entries and their associated instrumental and accompaniment audio assets if the song is no longer present on any Billboard chart.Use cheerio to scrape song position data from charts on using logic modified from billboard-top-100.The basic functionality of this repository's code logic is: With FFMPEG and create and upload a weekly video of mashups to the Auto Mashup YouTube channel (built with React) and the Node.js/Express server that uses the song data acquired in Contentful to find and create automated song mashups ( ) contains both the client-side website logic of The Node.js and Express server that handles the weekly regular Billboard chart scraping, monthly GOATīillboard chart scraping, individual song data/audio stem acquisition logic, and writing to a Contentful Content Management System. The first repository ( the one you are visiting right now) represents The Auto Mashup project spans two repositories. The question is - with the formulaic concepts and techniques involved in creating a musical mashup, can mashup-creation be automated? Functionality Platforms such as Tik Tok and YouTube have no dearth of mashup material - such creations have clearly become exceedingly popular. Notable mashup artists including Neil Cicierega and Girl Talk have released entire mashup albums such as Mouth Sounds and Feed the Animals, respectively. To sound similar - although perhaps not due to directly lifting elements from other musical works. ![]() This is not an isolated incident - many songs across multiple genres and decades sound similar or can be manipulated Paramore as co-writers of her single “Good 4 U” due to the similaritiesīetween her own song and Paramore’s 2007 song “Misery Business." Multiple mashups of In 2021, American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo added two members of American rock band The Hot 100 and the Billboard Global 200,Īs well as greatest-of-all-time (GOAT) charts such as GOAT Hot 100 Songs, GOAT Songs of the '90s, The weekly Billboard magazine tracks the most popular trending songsĪcross various genres of music and displays various charts containing music rankings on their website. Indeed, due to the fact that there are only so many chords, keys, tempos, song structures, time signatures, and modes, popular songs on the BillboardĬharts can, and often do, sound alike. This not only allows for a better-sounding mix, but increases the audience's ability to recognize distinct elements of both selected songs, while avoiding something like a Often, when selecting songs for a mashup, mashup creators search for songs that have similar The musical keys and tempos where necessary to achieve a perfect mix. Ideally, the vocal track of one song is superimposed seamlessly onto the instrumental track of a separate song, modifying Was found on Harry Nilsson's 1967 album Pandemonium Shadow Show, which features a cover of The Beatles' "You Can't Do That" with his own vocal recreations of more than a dozen other Beatles songs on the same instrumental track. ![]() A mashup, according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, is "a piece of music created by digitally overlayingĪn instrumental track with a vocal track from a different recording." The idea of mashups has been around since the late 1960s - the first such creation, arguably,
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