The music streaming website Soundcloud features a visualisation of each song embedded in its player panel which allows a certain degree of visual comparison.
For making a quick, intuitive comparison as required by my visual system, they do not work as well as the sheer amount of information distilled into a long timeline style shape creates a level of detail that makes the observation of general shapes and patterns more difficult than if it were simplified.
The long format is definitely something I will try and avoid and will try to find a way of compressing a timeline into a shape that could fit well into a square grid as this is would be more suited for presenting elements of a system of difference.
For Soundcloud's purposes however, they work well and are interesting to watch whilst listening to the music.
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