Analisis Komparatif antara Neural Network yang Dioptimalkan dan Large-Scale Language Models untuk Klasifikasi Genre Musik

The rapid growth of the digital music industry requires accurate music genre classification systems to enhance user experience in streaming services. This study compares a domain-specific Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network with three Large Language Models (LLMs)—HuBERT, WavLM, and WAV2Vec 2.0—for Music Genre Classification (MGC). The LSTM model was trained using Mel-spectrograms transformed from the GTZAN dataset, while the LLMs were fine-tuned using a smaller set of raw audio samples due to computational constraints. All models were tested on datasets with identical genre labels to ensure a fair evaluation. Results show that the LSTM model achieved the highest accuracy of 97.10%, outperforming HuBERT (86.00%), WavLM (83.00%), and WAV2Vec 2.0 (80.00%). The LSTM demonstrated superior generalization and stability without overfitting, while the LLMs struggled to differentiate between genres with similar acoustic characteristics. These findings indicate that general-purpose pre-trained models, although powerful, are less effective in music-specific tasks due to domain mismatch. Therefore, incorporating music-specific features and architectures remains essential for achieving higher accuracy and reliability in automatic genre classification systems.