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+Music genre classification is the task of assigning a genre label to a given piece of music. Due to the abundance of digital music that has become accessible online recently, this fundamental issue with music information retrieval has drawn a lot of attention. Music recommendation systems, music streaming services, and music search engines are just a few of the many uses for automatic music genre classification.
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