Music Classification

Source code

• GitHub repository

My Presentations and Papers

• First Presentation
• Second Presentation
• Final Paper

Libraries

• The Scala Programming Language
• XNet: For NEAT
• jEn-api: For accessing audio data from The Echo Nest
• Breeze: For graphing
• Weka: For a variety of useful classifiers

Documentation

• The Echo Nest Analyzer

Papers

• "Music Genre Classification with the Million Song Dataset" by Liang et al.: Some other graduate students who did the same thing.
• "Musical genre classification: Is it worth pursuing and how can it be improved?" by McKay and Fukunaga: An overview of the difficulties of musical genre classification.
• "Creating Music by Listening" by Tristan Jehan: The PhD thesis of the co-founder of the Echo Nest, which was used as a basis for how the dataset obtains its features.