Exploring Automatic Music Annotation with Acoustically-Objective Tags

Exploring Automatic Music Annotation with Acoustically-Objective Tags
by Derek Tingle, Youngmoo E. Kim, and Douglas Turnbull, MIR 2010

http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/cal/projects/CAL10K/

• consists of 10,870 songs annotated using a vocabulary of 475 acoustic tags and 153 genre tags from Pandora’s Music Genome Project
• use Echo Nest API for feature extraction
• train on cal10k and test on cal500

the 55 overlapping tags between the vocabularies of cal10k and cal500:

1. acoustic
2. acoustic guitar
3. aggressive
4. alternative
5. ambient sounds
6. bebop
7. bluegrass
8. blues
9. breathy
10. call and response
11. catchy
12. classic rock
13. cool jazz
14. country
15. dance pop
16. danceable
17. distorted electric guitar
18. drum set
19. duet
20. electric
21. electric blues
22. electronica
23. emotional
24. female lead vocals
25. folk
26. funk
27. gospel
28. gravelly
29. hand drums
30. harmonica
31. heavy beat
32. hip hop
33. jazz
34. light beat
35. low pitched
36. major
37. male lead vocals
38. mellow
39. minor
40. organ
41. piano
42. pop
43. punk
44. r&b
45. rock
46. saxophone
47. slow
48. soul
49. string ensemble
50. studio recording
51. swing
52. synthesized
53. synthesizer
54. trumpet
55. vocal harmonies