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Song Describer Dataset

Introduced by Ilaria Manco et al. in The Song Describer Dataset: a Corpus of Audio Captions for Music-and-Language Evaluation16 Nov 2023 archive 2025-07-28

The Song Describer Dataset (SDD) contains ~1.1k captions for 706 permissively licensed music recordings. It is designed for use in evaluation of models that address music-and-language (M&L) tasks such as music captioning, text-to-music generation and music-language retrieval.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Music Generation Song Describer Dataset OpenMusic FAD VGG 1.01 Quality-aware Masked Diffusion Transformer for Enhanced... ivcylc/openmusic +1 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper 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 5. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Quality-aware Masked Diffusion Transformer for Enhanced Music Generation 2 1 24 May 2024 ran 4 of 7 samples (3 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY-SA 4.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

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