Dynamic Range Compression and Its Effect on Music Genre Classification

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contents This paper investigates the impact of dynamic range compression (DRC) on music genre classification accuracy. By applying various compression settings to the test set of 200 songs, we aim to determine if compression can enhance the classifier's ability to discern distinct musical genres. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was trained on the original, uncompressed dataset. The study explored the influence of threshold, ratio, knee width, attack time, release time, and makeup gain on classification performance. Our findings indicate that applying compression to the test set can indeed improve music genre classification accuracy on average by 3.1%. The optimal compression settings varied across experiments, suggesting that the effectiveness of compression depends on the training data of the model. A table of the top compression settings over 1000 train and test splits is provided. In conclusion, this research demonstrates that dynamic range compression can serve as a valuable preprocessing technique for enhancing music genre classification. The insights gained from this study can inform the development of more accurate and robust music recommendation systems.
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Madsen III, Arlyn Reese
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper investigates the impact of dynamic range compression (DRC) on music genre classification accuracy. By applying various compression settings to the test set of 200 songs, we aim to determine if compression can enhance the classifier's ability to discern distinct musical genres. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was trained on the original, uncompressed dataset. The study explored the influence of threshold, ratio, knee width, attack time, release time, and makeup gain on classification performance. Our findings indicate that applying compression to the test set can indeed improve music genre classification accuracy on average by 3.1%. The optimal compression settings varied across experiments, suggesting that the effectiveness of compression depends on the training data of the model. A table of the top compression settings over 1000 train and test splits is provided. In conclusion, this research demonstrates that dynamic range compression can serve as a valuable preprocessing technique for enhancing music genre classification. The insights gained from this study can inform the development of more accurate and robust music recommendation systems.
title Dynamic Range Compression and Its Effect on Music Genre Classification
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13581