Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for enabling audio personalization. The techniques include determining audio personalization settings for an audio category, determining one or more audio properties of an audio track, selecting, based on the one or more audio properties, a first portion of the audio track that is representative of the audio category, playing the first portion of the audio track for a user, and adjusting, based on input from the user, a personalization setting for the user when playing back the first portion of the audio track.