README

MATCH Vamp plugin
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This is a Vamp plugin implementation of the MATCH audio alignment
algorithm:

  http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond/match/index.html

See plugin homepage at

  http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/match-vamp/

This is version 1.0 of the plugin, which includes a number of fixes,
efficiency improvements, and extra options not present in the prior
0.2.1 release.

Plugin code by Chris Cannam and Simon Dixon.


Citation, License and Use
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If you make use of this software for any public or commercial purpose,
we ask you to kindly mention the authors and Queen Mary, University of
London in your user-visible documentation. We're very happy to see
this sort of use but would much appreciate being credited, independent
of the requirements of the software license itself (see below).

Use of this software within a proprietary software application is
likely to require a commercial licence. Please contact the authors or
QM Innovation, http://www.qminnovation.co.uk/ for more information.

If you make use of this software for academic purposes, please cite:

  S. Dixon and G. Widmer, “MATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest”, in
  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information
  Retrieval (ISMIR-05), 2005.

(See the CITATION file for a BibTeX reference.)

Copyright (c) 2007-2015 Simon Dixon, Chris Cannam, and Queen Mary
University of London, Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Tido GmbH.

Distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING
for details.