diff --git a/backend/media/service_test.go b/backend/media/service_test.go
index d6f6d53..89b7033 100644
--- a/backend/media/service_test.go
+++ b/backend/media/service_test.go
@@ -120,6 +120,48 @@ func TestGetAudioSegment(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func BenchmarkGetAudioSegment(b *testing.B) {
+	const (
+		startFrame  = 0
+		endFrame    = 1323000
+		channels    = 2
+		fixturePath = "testdata/tone-44100-stereo-int16-30000ms.raw"
+		fixtureLen  = 5292000
+		numBins     = 2000
+	)
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		b.StopTimer()
+
+		expectedBytes := (endFrame - startFrame) * int64(channels) * media.SizeOfInt16
+
+		audioFile, err := os.Open(fixturePath)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+		audioData := io.NopCloser(io.LimitReader(audioFile, int64(expectedBytes)))
+
+		mediaSetID := uuid.New()
+		mediaSet := store.MediaSet{ID: mediaSetID, AudioChannels: channels}
+
+		store := &mocks.Store{}
+		store.On("GetMediaSet", mock.Anything, mediaSetID).Return(mediaSet, nil)
+
+		s3Client := &mocks.S3Client{}
+		s3Client.
+			On("GetObject", mock.Anything, mock.Anything).
+			Return(&s3.GetObjectOutput{Body: audioData, ContentLength: fixtureLen}, nil)
+		s3API := media.S3API{S3Client: s3Client, S3PresignClient: &mocks.S3PresignClient{}}
+
+		service := media.NewMediaSetService(store, nil, s3API, config.Config{}, zap.NewNop())
+
+		b.StartTimer()
+		_, err = service.GetAudioSegment(context.Background(), mediaSetID, startFrame, endFrame, numBins)
+		b.StopTimer()
+
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+		audioFile.Close()
+	}
+}
+
 type testReader struct {
 	count int
 	data  [][]byte
diff --git a/backend/media/testdata/tone-44100-stereo-int16-30000ms.raw b/backend/media/testdata/tone-44100-stereo-int16-30000ms.raw
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82cc954
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