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Authors: Daniel Wolff and Tillman Weyde
Abstract: In this paper, we compare the effectiveness of basic acoustic features and genre annotations when adapting a music similarity model to user ratings. We use the Metric Learning to Rank algorithm to learn a Mahalanobis metric from comparative similarity ratings in in the MagnaTagATune database. Using common formats for feature data, our approach can easily be transferred to other existing databases. Our results show a notable correlation between songs’ genres and associated similarity ratings, but learning on a combined feature set clearly outperforms either individual approach.