https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Instrumentalness-object/m-p/4972935#M420 <P>Hey&nbsp;<a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/23693840">@Lk39</a>, sorry for the late reply!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Hope you're well! The <SPAN>instrumentalness</SPAN> is defined as:</P><P><SPAN>'Predicts whether a track contains no vocals. “Ooh” and “aah” sounds are treated as instrumental in this context. Rap or spoken word tracks are clearly “vocal”. The closer the instrumentalness value is to 1.0, the greater likelihood the track contains no vocal content. Values above 0.5 are intended to represent instrumental tracks, but confidence is higher as the value approaches 1.0.'</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>It seems like this value is based on the whole track. Hope this answered&nbsp;your&nbsp;question. Let me know if you still need help on this one!</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Happy coding! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Hubo</SPAN></P> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:03:30 GMT Hubo 2020-06-08T19:03:30Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Instrumentalness-object/m-p/4956312#M159 <P>How exactly is instrumentalness calculated for each track?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Does it refer to the likelihood that a track contains any lyrics at <STRONG>any given time point during the track</STRONG>?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 10:28:15 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Instrumentalness-object/m-p/4956312#M159 Lk39 2020-05-16T10:28:15Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Instrumentalness-object/m-p/4972935#M420 <P>Hey&nbsp;<a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/23693840">@Lk39</a>, sorry for the late reply!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Hope you're well! The <SPAN>instrumentalness</SPAN> is defined as:</P><P><SPAN>'Predicts whether a track contains no vocals. “Ooh” and “aah” sounds are treated as instrumental in this context. Rap or spoken word tracks are clearly “vocal”. The closer the instrumentalness value is to 1.0, the greater likelihood the track contains no vocal content. Values above 0.5 are intended to represent instrumental tracks, but confidence is higher as the value approaches 1.0.'</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>It seems like this value is based on the whole track. Hope this answered&nbsp;your&nbsp;question. Let me know if you still need help on this one!</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Happy coding! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Hubo</SPAN></P> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:03:30 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Instrumentalness-object/m-p/4972935#M420 Hubo 2020-06-08T19:03:30Z