Music genre classification using Inception-ResNet architecture

Abstract

Music genres help categorize music but lack strict boundaries, emerging from interactions among public, marketing, history, and culture. With Spotify hosting over 80 million tracks, organizing digital music is challenging due to the sheer volume and diversity. Automating music genre classification aids in managing this vast array and attracting customers. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used for their ability to extract hierarchical features from images, applicable to music through spectrograms. This study introduces the Inception-ResNet architecture for music genre classification, significantly improving performance with 94.10% accuracy, precision of 94.19%, recall of 94.10%, F1-score of 94.08%, and 149,418 parameters on the GTZAN dataset, showcasing its potential in efficiently managing and categorizing large music databases.