[Note: this announcement refers to closed-source software] Version 1.6 of the QM Vamp Plugins -- a set of audio analysis plugins in the Vamp plugin format, developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London -- is now available for download. Plugins included are note onset detector, beat and barline tracker, tempo estimator, key estimator, tonal change detector, structural segmenter, timbral and rhythmic similarity, wavelet scaleogram, adaptive spectrogram, note transcription, chromagram, constant-Q spectrogram, and MFCC calculation. This is a major feature release which adds four new plugins (adaptive spectrogram, polyphonic transcription, wavelet scalogram, and bar-and-beat tracker) and a new method for the beat tracker. For downloads, please see: http://isophonics.net/QMVampPlugins The plugins are available in binary form only and may be freely used for any purpose, and redistributed for non-commercial purposes only. Supported platforms are 32- and 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Windows, and OS/X 10.4 or newer (Intel/PPC universal). For documentation of these plugins, please see: http://www.vamp-plugins.org/plugin-doc/qm-vamp-plugins.html For more information about Vamp plugins, please see http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ Chris