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What's My Genre?

A free tool that listens to your song and tells you what genres it fits. Useful for figuring out how to tag a release, spotting where your sound actually sits, or sanity-checking what you think it is.

How to use it

Head to submithub.com/whats-my-genre and give it one of the following:

  • A link from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, or Disco
  • Or upload an MP3, WAV, or FLAC file

You don't need an account. Guests get 2 free runs per IP per hour; sign in to keep going past that. Song needs to be at least 30 seconds long, and results get more accurate when there's a minute or more to work with.

What the results look like

We return a ranked list of genres, each with a confidence percentage. The percentage reflects how confident the model is that a given genre is present in the track, not how dominant it is, so you'll often see multiple genres scoring well for a single song.

How accurate is it?

Good, not perfect. Distinctive, tightly-defined genres (think Solo Piano, Phonk, Amapiano) get identified reliably. Overlapping indie / alternative / electronic labels are harder because the genres themselves blur into each other.

A few things that affect accuracy:

  • Audio source: Spotify links use a short compressed preview, which is less accurate than uploading an MP3 or WAV
  • Track length: shorter clips give the model less to work with
  • Platform quirks: YouTube and SoundCloud occasionally fail to stream. If one doesn't work, try another link or upload the file

If a result looks off, hit the thumbs-down button. That feedback goes directly into training the next version.

Want the deeper dive?

We wrote a blog post about how the genre detector was built, which genres it handles well, and which still need work. Read it here.