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FMA (Free Music Archive)
The Free Music Archive (FMA) is a large-scale dataset for evaluating several tasks in Music Information Retrieval. It consists of 343 days of audio from 106,574 tracks from 16,341 artists and 14,854 albums, arranged in a hierarchical taxonomy of 161 genres. It provides full-length and high-quality audio, pre-computed features, together with track- and user-level metadata, tags, and free-form text such as biographies.
There are four subsets defined by the authors:
- Full: the complete dataset,
- Large: the full dataset with audio limited to 30 seconds clips extracted from the middle of the tracks (or entire track if shorter than 30 seconds),
- Medium: a selection of 25,000 30s clips having a single root genre,
- Small: a balanced subset containing 8,000 30s clips with 1,000 clips per one of 8 root genres.
The official split into training, validation and test sets (80/10/10) uses stratified sampling to preserve the percentage of tracks per genre. Songs of the same artists are part of one set only.
Source: FMA: A Dataset For Music Analysis Audio Source: https://github.com/mdeff/fma
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Cadenza 1 - Task 2 - In Car | FMA | Baseline HAAQI 0.1256 | The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving... | claritychallenge/clarity | 1 | Compare |
| Genre classification | FMA | cnn CNN 855 | Multi-label Music Genre Classification from Audio, Text,... | sergiooramas/tartarus | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
2 shown of 2 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 128. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss | 1 | 1 | 9 Oct 2023 | not harvested |
| Multi-label Music Genre Classification from Audio, Text, and Images Using Deep Features | 1 | 1 | 16 Jul 2017 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
No language tagged.
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Free Music Archive
- FMA
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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