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The Influence of Audio Quality on the Popularity of Music Videos: A YouTube Case Study

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Michael Schoeffler,

Jürgen HerreAuthors Info & Claims

WISMM '14: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Internet-Scale Multimedia Management

Pages 35 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/2661714.2661725

Published: 07 November 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Video-sharing websites like YouTube contain many music videos. On such websites, the audio quality of these music videos can differ from poor to very good since the content is uploaded by users. The results of a previous study indicated that music videos are very popular in general among the users. This paper addresses the question whether the audio quality of music videos has an influence on user ratings. A generic system for measuring the audio quality on video-sharing websites is described. The system has been implemented and was deployed for evaluating the relationship between audio quality and video ratings on YouTube. The analysis of the results indicate that, contrary to popular expectation, the audio quality of music videos has surprisingly little influence on its appreciation by the YouTube user.

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The Influence of Audio Quality on the Popularity of Music Videos: A YouTube Case Study
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/2661714

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Hai-Jew S(2017)Exploring “User,” “Video,” and (Pseudo) Multi-Mode Networks on YouTube with NodeXLSocial Media Data Extraction and Content Analysis10.4018/978-1-5225-0648-5.ch009(242-295)Online publication date: 2017
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Schoeffler MHerre J(2016)The relationship between basic audio quality and overall listening experienceThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America10.1121/1.4963078140:3(2101-2112)Online publication date: Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4963078

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