Knowledge discovery and visualisation framework using machine learning for music information retrieval from broadcast radio data

Michael Furner, Md Zahidul Islam, Chang Tsun Li

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Abstract

Music radio data is currently underutilised in radio program management. Software tools that listen to and analyse music airplay are in many markets nonexistent, limited, or unaffordable. In this paper we present a novel knowledge discovery and visualisation framework for broadcast radio, ZeitMetric. The ZeitMetric framework uses machine learning and music information retrieval techniques to label radio audio automatically for knowledge discovery. The framework incorporates a novel music dataset collection technique (MusiGrab) to leverage online music services for ground-truth data, as well as a novel knowledge visualisation and presentation technique based on self-organizing maps (ZeitViz). The framework is compared to what little literature relating to this topic exists, and a set of requirements for a high-quality broadcast radio knowledge discovery is developed. MusiGrab specifically is compared to an existing static music information retrieval dataset and shown to offer superior results in this context. Future research directions using and extending the framework are also discussed. On acceptance of the paper, code for a use-case of the MusiGrab dataset collection technique will be released on GitHub.

Original languageEnglish
Article number115236
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalExpert Systems with Applications
Volume182
Early online date28 May 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2021

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