Genre Tag . . . Tag Genre

Scalable Genre and Tag Prediction with Spectral Covariance

Cepstral analysis is effective in separating source from filter in vocal and monophonic [pitched] recordings, but is it a good general-purpose framework for working with music audio? We evaluate covariance in spectral features as an alternative to means and variances in cepstral features (particularly MFCCs) as summaries of frame-level features. We find that spectral covariance is more effectiv...

Using Block-level Features for Genre Classification, Tag Classification and Music Similarity Estimation

In our submission we use a set of block-level features for three different tasks, namely genre classification, tag classification and music similarity estimation. This abstract presents the feature set that is used and some specific details of the three submitted algorithms.

1 Worlds of Genre — Metaphors of Genre

Genre Taxonomy

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...

A Generic Training and Classification System Formirex08 Classification Tasks: Audio Music Mood, Audio Genre, Audio Artist and Audio Tag

This extended abstract details a submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2008 for the training and classification tasks audio music mood, audio genre, audio artist and audio tag. The same system has been submitted for the various tasks without any adaptations to the specific problems. The system named ircamclassification is a generic system which performs batch...