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Music Genre Classifier

Train a model to guess a song's genre from short audio clips.

Start building ↓
fig — working model Result first

The build

Step 01

Extract features

Turn clips into spectrogram features.

Step 02

Train

Fit a classifier on labelled genres.

Step 03

Validate

Test on held-out clips.

Step 04

Guess

Feed a new clip and read the genre.

Working Principle

The model learns the sound features typical of each genre and matches a new clip to the closest genre profile.

The science behind it

A closer look

Audio features like rhythm and frequency content distinguish genres; the model learns those statistical patterns.

Take it further

Variables to test

  • 1 Which two genres get confused most?
  • 2 Use longer clips — better accuracy?

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