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Music accounts for a significant chunk of interest among various online activities. This is reflected by wide array of alternatives offered in music related web/mobile apps, information portals, featuring millions of artists, songs and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Shubhanshu Gupta

This paper introduces a new large-scale music dataset, MusicNet, to serve as a source of supervision and evaluation of machine learning methods for music research. MusicNet consists of hundreds of freely-licensed classical music recordings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Sham Kakade

Recent advancements in music generation are raising multiple concerns about the implications of AI in creative music processes, current business models and impacts related to intellectual property management. A relevant discussion and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-07 Roser Batlle-Roca , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Xavier Serra , Yuki Mitsufuji , Emilia Gómez

In this paper, we introduce the MoisesDB dataset for musical source separation. It consists of 240 tracks from 45 artists, covering twelve musical genres. For each song, we provide its individual audio sources, organized in a two-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Igor Pereira , Felipe Araújo , Filip Korzeniowski , Richard Vogl

AI music generators have advanced to the point where their outputs are often indistinguishable from human compositions. While detection methods have emerged, they are typically designed and validated in music streaming contexts with clean,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-04 David López-Ayala , Asier Cabello , Pablo Zinemanas , Emilio Molina , Martín Rocamora

The evaluation of music understanding in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) requires a rigorously defined benchmark that truly tests whether models can perceive and interpret music, a standard that current data methodologies frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Benno Weck , Pablo Puentes , Andrea Poltronieri , Satyajeet Prabhu , Dmitry Bogdanov

Data are crucial in various computer-related fields, including music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary area bridging computer science and music. This paper introduces CCMusic, an open and diverse database comprising multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Monan Zhou , Shenyang Xu , Zhaorui Liu , Zhaowen Wang , Feng Yu , Wei Li , Baoqiang Han

Music representation learning is central to music information retrieval and generation. While recent advances in multimodal learning have improved alignment between text and audio for tasks such as cross-modal music retrieval, text-to-music…

In music information retrieval (MIR) research, the use of pretrained foundational audio encoders (FAEs) has recently become a trend. FAEs pretrained on large amounts of music and audio data have been shown to improve performance on MIR…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Keisuke Toyama , Zhi Zhong , Akira Takahashi , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Music Emotion Recognition (MER) is a task deeply connected to human perception, relying heavily on subjective annotations collected from contributors. Prior studies tend to focus on specific musical styles rather than incorporating a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Joann Ching , Gerhard Widmer

Collecting large, aligned cross-modal datasets for music-flavor research is difficult because perceptual experiments are costly and small by design. We address this bottleneck through two complementary experiments. The first tests whether…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Matteo Spanio , Valentina Frezzato , Antonio Rodà

While guitar tablature has become a popular topic in MIR research, there exists no such a guitar tablature dataset that focuses on the soundtracks of anime and video games, which have a surprisingly broad and growing audience among the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yuecheng Zhou , Yaolong Ju , Lingyun Xie

While piano music has become a significant area of study in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), there is a notable lack of datasets for piano solo music with text labels. To address this gap, we present PIAST (PIano dataset with Audio,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Hayeon Bang , Eunjin Choi , Megan Finch , Seungheon Doh , Seolhee Lee , Gyeong-Hoon Lee , Juhan Nam

Music datasets play a crucial role in advancing research in machine learning for music. However, existing music datasets suffer from limited size, accessibility, and lack of audio resources. To address these shortcomings, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla , Emil Funke , Roger Wattenhofer

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tends to focus on the analysis of audio signals. Often, a single music recording is used as representative of a "song" even though different performances of the same song may reveal different properties. A…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Alexander Lerch , Claire Arthur , Ashis Pati , Siddharth Gururani

Music understanding is a complex task that often requires reasoning over both structural and semantic elements of audio. We introduce BASS, designed to evaluate music understanding and reasoning in audio language models across four broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Min Jang , Orevaoghene Ahia , Nazif Tamer , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov , Noah A. Smith

Symbolic music datasets are important for music information retrieval and musical analysis. However, there is a lack of large-scale symbolic datasets for classical piano music. In this article, we create a GiantMIDI-Piano (GP) dataset…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Bochen Li , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang

As the accessibility and ease-of-use of digital audio workstations increases, so does the quantity of music available to the average listener; additionally, differences between genres are not always well defined and can be abstract, with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bartosz Karpiński , Cyryl Leszczyński

The equitable distribution of academic data is crucial for ensuring equal research opportunities, and ultimately further progress. Yet, due to the complexity of using the API for audio data that corresponds to the Million Song Dataset along…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Haven Kim , Keunwoo Choi , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Cynthia C. S. Liem

The recent explosion of generative AI-Music systems has raised numerous concerns over data copyright, licensing music from musicians, and the conflict between open-source AI and large prestige companies. Such issues highlight the need for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Phillip Long , Zachary Novack , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley