Music Mood Player Implementation Applied in Daycare Using Self Organizing Map Method

. Music is an art, entertainment and human activity that involve some organized sounds. Music is closely related to human psychology. A piece of music often associated with certain adjectives such as happy, sad, romantic and many more. The linkage between the music with a certain mood has been widely used in various occasions by people, there for music classification based on relevance to a particular emotion is important. Daycare is one example of an institution that used music as therapy or tools of support in each of its parenting activities. This research concerns in implementation of a music mood player using Self Organizing Map applied at the Daycare. The features that are used on this music mood player are rhythm patterns of the music. The mood parameters that used in this system is based on Robert Thayer\u27s energy-stress model which are exuberance / happy, contentment / relax, anxious and depression. The system is tested using a set of songs with various genres and the classification results are compared with the mood obtained by child psychology expert. The system can be set automatically according to the activities at daycare.