Music (genres) recognition using c#

Question

I need to do a music recognition application in C# for school purposes (recognition of some music genres - styles)

Can you recommend some GOOD way (sources, APIs, libraries, articles) to do this?

Thanks very much.

Answer 1

The Fourier Transform for the music has been explored over and over and nothing useful could be found. It is just given that it is not really helpful. DirectSound is also not the way to go.

I posted this post before the switch to the new format but apparently it was lost although I saw it clearly posted. It is an afterthought to what I've said before. What I said was that it is unclear how far the OP wants to go: if he wants to do some research to break a new ground or simply find C# code for established conceptual frameworks? If he is not averse to research then there was an article in Nature or Science recently whereby they laid out a framework for a mathematical description of human music perception. The whole idea is that the musical notes fall into a network of nodes which can be stretched over a lattice kind of like the Mobius surface but more complicated. It is a multidimensiona space. The distances (metric) are defined pretty much like musician do it. You have to do the Fourier of course to take the atoms of music. Thus my speculation is that if the OP takes an arbitrary recording, does frequency analysis and places the sounds onto a lattice like that and all sounds fit then he can say that it is music. If they fall in between and the representation becomes blurry then it is noise.

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