Building ensembles of audio and lyrics features to improve musical genre classification
Rudolf L. Mayer, Andreas Rauber · 2010
Abstract—Digital audio has become an almost ubiquitously spread medium, and for many consumers, digital audio is the major distribution and storage form of music. Numerous on-line music stores account for a growing share of record sales. The widespread adoption of digital audio on home computers and especially mobile devices, and numerous on-line music stores show the size of this market. Handling the ever growing size of both private and commercial collections however becomes increasingly difficult. Computer algorithms that can understand and interpret characteristics of music, and organise and recommend them for and to their users can be of great assistance. Music is an inherently multi-modal type of data, and the lyrics associated with the music are as essential to the reception and the message of a song as is the audio. Album covers are carefully designed by artists to convey a message consistent with the music and image of