Question 4132bb97

Expression of Ideas - Rhetorical Synthesis

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

  • The Million Song Dataset (MSD) includes main audio features and descriptive tags for popular songs.
  • Audio features include acoustic traits such as loudness and pitch intervals.
  • Many algorithms use these audio features to predict a new song’s popularity.
  • These algorithms may fail to accurately identify main audio features of a song with varying acoustic traits.
  • Algorithms based on descriptive tags that describe fixed traits such as genre are more reliable predictors of song popularity.

The student wants to explain a disadvantage of relying on audio features to predict a song’s popularity. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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