GTZAN+ is a music database composed of 15 music genres. It is an extension of the GTZAN database composed of 10 music genres (available here) augmented by the 5 following Afro music genres: Bikutsi, Makossa, Bamileké, Salsa and Zouk. Each genre in GTZAN+ is represented by 100 ".wav" files of 30 seconds each (22050 Hz, 32-bit floating point, mono). Bikutsi, Makossa and Bamileke are Cameroonian traditional music genres. Zouk is French-Carabbean music genre and Salsa is a music genre having Cuban origins, but many salsa songs played by Cameroonian singers have been included in the database.
GTZAN+ (15 genres) | ||||||||||||||
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GTZAN (10 genres) | AFRO (5 genres) | |||||||||||||
blues | classical | country | disco | hiphop | jazz | metal | pop | reggae | rock | bikutsi | makossa | bamileke | salsa | zouk |
In order to perform music genre classification on the content of GTZAN+ in public tools like WEKA or MEKA, an ARFF (Attribute-Relation File Format) file is required. This file contains the music descriptors used to describe each song of the database. A detailed description of the ARFF file format is available here. Three ARFF files used in the related papers [1,2,3] can be downloaded from this page, 2 files for GTZAN and 1 file for GTZAN+. In each file, the songs of the corresponding database are individually described by 34 timbre and 401 rhythm music descriptors. These 3 files are available through the following links: