# Learning to Recognize Musical Genre from Audio

## TL;DR

This paper discusses a challenge on musical genre recognition from audio data, highlighting the task, challenge design, submission statistics, and results to advance research in automatic music genre classification.

## Contribution

It introduces a new open-data challenge for musical genre recognition, providing insights into the task setup, data, and evaluation results.

## Key findings

- Challenge attracted diverse submissions
- Results demonstrate varying model performances
- Insights into effective features for genre recognition

## Abstract

We here summarize our experience running a challenge with open data for musical genre recognition. Those notes motivate the task and the challenge design, show some statistics about the submissions, and present the results.