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Re:Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning by chestervonwinch on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:46AM (#13088124)
1. I wonder how the continuous wavelet transform would compare to the windowed Fourier transform used here. See [1] an python implementation, for example.

2. The size of frequency analysis blocks seems arbitrary. I wonder if there is a "natural" block size based on a song's tempo, say 1 bar. This would of course require a priori tempo knowledge or a run-time estimate.

[1]: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.15.1/reference/generated/...

Re:Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning by Despoisj on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:59AM (#13088177)
The slice size is indeed quite arbitrary, and knowing the BPM would help, but isn't reliable either (various tempos, rubato for classical etc.)