[2512.14629] Evaluating Music Context Preservation: A Multi-facet Framework for Music Enhancing Techniques

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Summary:Music modifying performs a significant position in fashionable music manufacturing, with purposes in movie, broadcasting, and sport improvement. Latest advances in music modifying methods have enabled various modifying duties reminiscent of timbre switch, instrument substitution, and style transformation. Nevertheless, many present works overlook evaluating their skill to protect musical aspects that ought to stay unchanged throughout modifying, which we outline as Music Context Preservation (MuseCP). Whereas some research do think about MuseCP, their analysis protocols and metrics usually are not complete. To handle this, we introduce the primary MuseCP analysis framework, MuseCPEval, that covers 4 classes of music aspects with fine-grained and well-tailored metrics to seize nuanced adjustments in music attributes. Goal validation and a human examine exhibit the effectiveness of those metrics. Furthermore, the case research on various music modifying methods illustrate the sensible utility of those metrics as a testbed and diagnostic instrument, offering insights into the strengths and limitations of present methods. We hope our metrics and findings can supply sensible steering for creating more practical and dependable music modifying methods with sturdy MuseCP functionality