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+# Dataset
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+This dataset was downloaded from [Marsyas](https://marsyasweb.appspot.com/download/data_sets/) website. It is the famous GTZAN dataset. A direct download link is [this](http://opihi.cs.uvic.ca/sound/music_speech.tar.gz).
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+From Marsyas' website:
+> A dataset which was collected for the purposes of music/speech discrimination. The dataset consists of 120 tracks, each 30 seconds long. Each class (music/speech) has 60 examples. The tracks are all 22050Hz Mono 16-bit audio files in .wav format. 
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