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Music Information Retrieval datasets
archive 2025-07-2826 datasets carry the task tag "Music Information Retrieval" (the task itself: Music Information Retrieval), ordered by the archive's paper count. Page 1 of 1: 26 shown of 26. Facet routes are this site's own (the archive records the tag string, not a page).
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Question Answering 413Semantic Segmentation 347Object Detection 332Image Classification 283Classification 222Text Classification 167Language Modelling 166Text Generation 162Visual Question Answering (VQA) 144Named Entity Recognition (NER) 130Pose Estimation 124Anomaly Detection 119Action Recognition 115Instance Segmentation 111Sentiment Analysis 104Text Summarization 98Domain Adaptation 96Speech Recognition 96Reading Comprehension 95Information Retrieval 932D Object Detection 92Image Retrieval 87Machine Translation 82Relation Extraction 822D Semantic Segmentation 81Natural Language Inference 81Image Captioning 79Image Generation 79Depth Estimation 77Node Classification 75Natural Language Understanding 72Autonomous Driving 70Code Generation 70Object Tracking 693D Object Detection 67Face Recognition 67Link Prediction 67Person Re-Identification 65Data Augmentation 63Multi-Task Learning 593D Reconstruction 58Common Sense Reasoning 56Recommendation Systems 56Video Understanding 56Optical Character Recognition (OCR) 55Graph Classification 54Abstractive Text Summarization 52Emotion Recognition 52Medical Image Segmentation 52Word Embeddings 52Music Information Retrieval 26
Music Information Retrieval datasets 1–26 of 26
FMA (Free Music Archive)
The Free Music Archive (FMA) is a large-scale dataset for evaluating several tasks in Music Information Retrieval.
128 papers · 2 benchmarks
MedleyDB, is a dataset of annotated, royalty-free multitrack recordings.
47 papers · 0 benchmarks
RWC (Real World Computing Music Database)
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.
43 papers · 0 benchmarks
The MTG-Jamendo dataset is an open dataset for music auto-tagging.
39 papers · 0 benchmarks
URMP (University of Rochester Multi-Modal Musical Performance)
URMP (University of Rochester Multi-Modal Musical Performance) is a dataset for facilitating audio-visual analysis of musical performances.
38 papers · 2 benchmarks
GuitarSet is a dataset of high-quality guitar recordings and rich annotations.
31 papers · 2 benchmarks
EMOPIA (A Multi-Modal Pop Piano Dataset For Emotion Recognition and Emotion-based Music Generation)
EMOPIA (pronounced ‘yee-mò-pi-uh’) dataset is a shared multi-modal (audio and MIDI) database focusing on perceived emotion in pop piano music, to facilitate research on various tasks related to music emotion.
23 papers · 0 benchmarks
The iKala dataset is a singing voice separation dataset that comprises of 252 30-second excerpts sampled from 206 iKala songs (plus 100 hidden excerpts reserved for MIREX data mining contest).
20 papers · 1 benchmark
The Lakh Pianoroll Dataset (LPD) is a collection of 174,154 multitrack pianorolls derived from the Lakh MIDI Dataset (LMD).
10 papers · 0 benchmarks
GiantMIDI-Piano contains 10,854 unique piano solo pieces composed by 2,786 composers.
9 papers · 0 benchmarks
OpenMIC-2018 is an instrument recognition dataset containing 20,000 examples of Creative Commons-licensed music available on the Free Music Archive.
8 papers · 1 benchmark
The YouTube-100M data set consists of 100 million YouTube videos: 70M training videos, 10M evaluation videos, and 20M validation videos.
8 papers · 0 benchmarks
MSSD (Music Streaming Sessions Dataset)
The Spotify Music Streaming Sessions Dataset (MSSD) consists of 160 million streaming sessions with associated user interactions, audio features and metadata describing the tracks streamed during the sessions, and snapshots of the…
7 papers · 1 benchmark
GoodSounds dataset contains around 28 hours of recordings of single notes and scales played by 15 different professional musicians, all of them holding a music degree and having some expertise in teaching.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
MuMu is a new dataset of more than 31k albums classified into 250 genre classes.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
jazznet is a dataset of piano patterns for music audio machine learning research.
4 papers · 0 benchmarks
COSIAN (a collection of singing voice annotation)
COSIAN is an annotation collection of Japanese popular (J-POP) songs, focusing on singing style and expression of famous solo-singers.
3 papers · 0 benchmarks
Fingerprint Dataset (Neural Audio Fingerprint Dataset)
This dataset includes all music sources, background noises and impulse-reponses (IR) samples and conversation speech that have been used in the work "Neural Audio Fingerprint for High-specific Audio Retrieval based on Contrastive Learning"…
2 papers · 0 benchmarks
CAL10K (Computer Audition Lab 10000)
The CAL10K dataset (introduced as Swat10k) contains 10,870 songs that are weakly-labelled using a tag vocabulary of 475 acoustic tags and 153 genre tags.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
Guitar-TECHS (Guitar Tones/Techniques, Excerpts & Chords Dataset)
Guitar-TECHS is a comprehensive dataset featuring a variety of guitar techniques, musical excerpts, chords, and scales.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
The Haydn Annotation Dataset consists of note onset annotations from 24 experiment participants with varying musical experience.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
Introduction The Niko Chord Progression Dataset is used in AccoMontage2.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
PIAST (PIAST: A Multimodal Piano Dataset with Audio, Symbolic and Text)
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1 paper · 0 benchmarks
Virtuoso Strings is a dataset for soft onsets detection for string instruments.
1 paper · 0 benchmarks
This publicly available data is synthesised audio for woodwind quartets including renderings of each instrument in isolation.
0 papers · 0 benchmarks
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