Automated genre classification makes it possible to determine the musical genre of an incoming audio waveform. One application of this is to help listeners find music they like more quickly among millions of tracks in an online music store. By using numerical thresholds and the MPEG-7 descriptors, a computer can analyze the audio stream for occurrences of specific sound events such as kick drum, snare hit, and guitar strum. The knowledge about sound events provides a basis for the implementation of a digital music genre classifier. The classifier inputs a new audio file, extracts salient features, and makes a decision about the musical genre based on the decision rule. The final classification results show a recognition rate in the range 75% - 94% for five genres of music

Author: Osmanovic, Nermin
Affiliation: Microsoft Corporation
AES Convention: 125 (October 2008) Paper Number: 7513
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
Subject: Analysis and Synthesis of Sound

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