It's a growing problem: a dizzying number of songs get released to online music stores and streaming services or uploaded to archives around the world each day, and those songs need to be categorized.

Deep learning methods have revolutionised the automatic categorisation of music into genres by replacing handcrafted features with data-driven representations. Central to this progress are ...

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still today, genre labels dominate. Whether ...