Musical Tones Classification using Machine Learning

Abstract: In today's scenario, most things are digitized. Music is one of the most famous forms of art, learned by different people and taught by several musicians. Therefore, music information retrieval (MIR) and its applications are gaining popularity following advances in machine learning technology. Various applications such as genre recognition, song recognition, automatic score generation, music transcription, tempo, beat type, etc. have been developed to achieve this goal. However, little research has been done to identify musical instruments. The new method proposed here develops a machine learning model in combination with the Mel-frequency-cepstral-coefficient by extracting audio features directly from the raw audio dataset. A total of 600 audio files containing sound samples from 6 different instruments are used for system training and instrument prediction.