{"url":"/dataset/rwc","name":"RWC","full_name":"Real World Computing Music Database","description_markdown":"The **RWC** (Real World Computing) Music Database is a copyright-cleared music database (DB) that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research. It contains around 100 complete songs with manually labeled section boundaries. For the 50 instruments, individual sounds at half-tone intervals were captured with several variations of playing styles, dynamics, instrument manufacturers and musicians.\r\n\r\nSource: [https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/](https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/)\r\nImage Source: [http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/matti/demos/basstrans/](http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/matti/demos/basstrans/)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/","introduced_date":"2002-01-01","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":null,"title":"RWC Music Database: Popular, Classical and Jazz Music Databases","first_author":null,"url":"http://ismir2002.ismir.net/proceedings/03-SP04-1.pdf"},"license":{"name":"Custom (non-commercial)","url":"https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/"},"modalities":[{"name":"Audio","url":"/datasets/modality/audio"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Language Modelling","url":"/task/language-modelling","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/language-modelling"},{"name":"Music Information Retrieval","url":"/task/music-information-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/music-information-retrieval"},{"name":"Chord Recognition","url":"/task/chord-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/chord-recognition"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"},{"name":"Japanese","url":"/datasets/language/japanese"}],"variants":["RWC"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":43,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}