We already learned that FFT is pointing us in the right direction but in itself, will not be enough to finally arrive at a classifier that successfully manages to organize our scrambled directory of songs into individual genre directories. We need a more advanced version of it.
At this point, we have to do more research. Other people might have had similar challenges in the past and already found ways that might also help us. And, indeed, there is even a yearly conference dedicated to music-genre classification, organized by the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Apparently, Automatic Music Genre Classification (AMGC) is an established ...