Resources / Datasets

The list of datasets presented here pulls from the mir-datasets repository; if you’d like to add a dataset, create an issue / pull request there and the changes will propogate here.

The community owes a huge thanks to the hard work of Alexander Lerch in compiling and maintaining this list of datasets.

status	dataset	metadata	contents	with audio
☠	200DrumMachines	audio samples	7371 one-shots	yes
✅	ACM_MIRUM	tempo	1410 excerpts (60s)	yes
✅	AcousticBrainz-Genre	15-31 genres with 265-745 subgenres	audio features for about 2000000 songs	no
☠	ADC2004	predominant pitch	20 excerpts	yes
✅	Acoustic Event Dataset	28 event classes	5223 audio snippets	yes
✅	AIST Dance Video Database	street dance videos	13,940 videos for 60 pieces	yes
✅	Amg1608	valence & arousal	1608 excerpts (30s)	no
✅	AMT-pilot	structure by multiple annotators	8 songs	yes
✅	Automatic Practice Logging	piano practice	620 segments	yes
☠	artist20	20 artists	1413 songs	no
✅	ASAP	aligned MIDI/audio performances and MIDI/XML scores, beats, downbeats, time signatures, key signatures	1068 MIDI performances, 520 audio performances, 222 scores	yes (see MAESTRO)
✅	AudioSet	632 event classes	2084320 clips (10s)	no
✅	bach10	aligned multitrack MIDI	10 chorales	yes
✅	ballroom	8 genres, tempo, beats, bars / downbeats	698 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	beatboxset1	percussion annotation	14 clips	yes
✅	BPS-FH Beethoven Piano Sonata with Function Harmony	functional annotation	32 sonatas	no
✅	C224a	14 genres	224 artists	no
✅	C3ka	18 genres	3000 artists	no
✅	C49ka-C111ka	genres	48800/110588 artists	no
✅	CAL10k	tags	10870 songs	no
✅	CAL500	tags	502 songs	yes
✅	CarnaticRhythm	sama, beats	176 pieces	on request
✅	Chordify Annotator Subjectivity Dataset	chords by 4 annotators	50 songs	no
✅	CBFdataset	4 playing techniques (Chinese Bamboo Flute)	10 performers	yes
✅	CCMixter	vocal track, background track	50 mixes	yes
✅	Chopin22	aligned MIDI	44 recordings	yes
✅	Clotho	5 descriptive captions	4981 snippets	yes
✅	CMMSD	note/rest/transition, onsets, vibrato	36 excerpts	no
✅	Coidach	55 genres	26420 songs	no
✅	corpusCOFLA	editorial, predominant melody	1800 flamenco recordings	no
☠	covers80	cover songs	80 song pairs	yes
✅	Cross-Composer	11 composers, piece, key, era, instrumentation	1100 chromagrams and chord labels	no
✅	Cross-Era	composer, piece, key, era, instrumentation	2000 chromagrams and chord labels	no
✅	Choral Singing Dataset	f0, MIDI	48 recordings	yes
✅	Da-TACOS	cover songs	25000 songs	no
✅	Dataset of synchronised Audio, LyrIcs and vocal notes	aligned notes and lyrics	5358 songs	no
✅	DAMP	karaoke performances, aligned lyrics, pronunciation assessment	34000 monophonic recordings	yes
✅	Dagstuhl ChoirSet	beats, time-aligned scores, F0	81 takes	yes
✅	DEAM - The MediaEval Database for Emotional Analysis of Music	valence & arousal	1802 excerpts	yes
✅	DEAPDataset	valence & arousal, dominance, physiological data	120 music video excerpts	no
✅	DESED	10 audio event classes	pprox 20k 10s clips (unlabeled, weakly/strongly labeled)	yes
✅	DREANSS	onset times, percussion instruments	18 excerpts	yes
✅	DrumPt	4 playing techniques	app. 2000 annotations	yes (see ENST)
✅	DSD100	multitrack recordings, stems for vocals, drums, bass and accompaniment	100 songs	yes
✅	EMO-Soundscapes	arousal & valence	1213 soundscape recordings	yes
✅	emoMusic	arousal & valence	744 excerpts (45s)	yes
✅	Emotify	induced emotion	400 excerpts	yes
✅	EMusic	arousal & valence	100 excerpts (experimental music)	yes
☠	ENST-Drums	onset times, perc. instruments, playing technique	318 segments	yes
✅	Erkomaishvili Dataset	sheet music, structure, F0, note onsets	118 tracks	yes
✅	Extendedballroom	9 genres, tempo	4000 excerpts (30s)	downloadable
✅	ExtraSensory	51 context labels	300000 sensor recordings from 60 users	yes
☠	ffuhrmann	11 predom. instr.	6951 excerpts from 220 songs	yes/no
✅	Flamenco database	editorial, biographical, musicological information on flamenco, 1102 artists, 74 palos, 2860 albums	13311 tracks	no
✅	FMA-full	161 genres	106574 songs	yes
✅	FMA-large	161 genres	106574 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	FMA-medium	16 genres	25000 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	FMA-small	8 genres	8000 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	FSD-Kaggle2019	80 tags	29000 clips	yes
✅	Fugue Analyses	fugue structure, patterns, cadences	36 fugues (Bach & Shostakovich)	no
✅	GiantStepsKey	key	604 files	no
✅	GiantStepsTempo	tempo	664 files	no
✅	GiantStepsTempo:alternate	tempo	664 files	no
✅	Greek Music Dataset	genre, valence, arousal	1400 songs	downloadable
☠	Gracenote Music Identification 2014	timestamp, country	110M music ID matches	no
✅	GoodSounds	12 instruments, pitch, sound quality	8750 notes	yes
✅	GPT	7 guitar playing techniques	6580 clips	yes
✅	Groove MIDI Dataset	drum timing	1150 MIDI recordings	rendered
✅	Guitar Solo Dataset	start/stop of guitar solos	60 songs	no
✅	GTZAN	10 genres, tempo labels, key labels (lerch), key labels (li), beat/downbeat, metrical levels	1000 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	GuitarSet	midi, pitch, beat, chords	360 guitar excerpts (30s) with hexaphonic audio	yes
✅	Hainsworth	tempo	245 excerpts (60s)	yes
✅	HarmonixSet	beats, downbeats, structure	912 pop songs	no
✅	HHDS	multitrack, style, tempo	18 songs	yes
☠	holzapfel:onset	onset times	78 excerpts	yes
✅	homburg	9 genres	1889 excerpts (10s)	yes
✅	IADS	valence & arousal, dominance	111 sound snippets	yes
✅	IDMT Multitrack	multitrack, style	12 songs	yes
✅	IDMT-SMT-Audio-Effects	effects on bass and guitar notes	55044 recordings	yes
✅	IDMT-SMT-Bass	bass performance styles	4300 excerpts	yes
✅	IDMT-SMT-Bass-SINGLE-TRACK	style annotated bass lines	17 bass lines (?)	yes
✅	IDMT-SMT-Drum	onset times, perc. instruments	518 files	yes
✅	IDMT-SMT-Guitar	9 guitar playing techniques	4700+400 note events	yes
✅	iKala	singing voice tracks, background tracks	252 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	INRIA:EuroVision	structure	124 songs	no
✅	INRIA:Quaero	structure	159 songs	no
✅	IRMAS	11 instruments	2874 excerpts	yes
☠	ISMIR2004Genre	6 genres	729 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	ISMIR2004Tempo	tempo	465 excerpts (20s)	yes
✅	Jazz Audio-Aligned Harmony Dataset	structure, key, chords, beats	113 songs	no
✅	Jamendo-VAD	voice activity	61+16+16 songs	yes
✅	JGDB	multitrack, MIDI	random generated excerpts	yes
✅	JKU-ScoFo	audio, MIDI	16 recordings	yes
✅	Josquin La Rue Secure Duo Dataset	symbolic scores	77 duos (Josquin & La Rue)	no
✅	Jordan:Classical	structure	15 pieces	yes
✅	Jordan:Jazz	structure	15 pieces	yes
☠	LabROSA:APT	MIDI	29 piano excerpts	yes
☠	LabROSA:MIDI	audio, MIDI	4 songs	yes
☠	last.fm data set	listening habits	992 users	no
✅	LFM-1b	listening habits	120000 users	no
✅	Lyrical Influence Networks Dataset	lyrics-based artist and genre graphs	42802 artists/214 genres	no
☠	Lakh MIDI Dataset	MIDI, tempo, key	176581 MIDI files	no
✅	LMD - Latin	10 genres	3160 songs	no
✅	M-DJCUE	cue points	134 tracks	no
✅	MAESTRO	audio aligned midi, velocity, sustain	172 hours of piano	yes
✅	magnatagatune	similarity, tags	25863 excerpts (30s)	yes
☠	MAPS	piano notes/chords/pieces, tempo/key	238 pieces	yes
✅	MARD	album reviews	66566 songs	no
✅	MARG-AMT	MIDI pitch, onset/offset times	30 melodies	yes
✅	MAST	vocal performance assessment	1018 performances	no
✅	MAST-Rhythm	rhythm performance assessment	3721 performances	yes
✅	McGill Billboard	chords	740 songs	no
✅	MDBDrums	onset times, perc. instrument, playing technique	23 excerpts	yes
✅	Medley-solos-DB: a cross-collection dataset for musical instrument recognition	8 instruments	21572 excerpts	yes
✅	MedleyDB	multitrack, genre, melody f0, instrument activation	122 songs	yes
✅	MER500	emotion	500 clips	yes
✅	MIR-1K	vocal tracks, background tracks	1000 excerpts	yes
☠	mirex05Train	predominant pitch	13 excerpts	yes
✅	mirex06Train	tempo, beats	20 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	Mid Level Perceptual Music Features	7 perceptual features	5000 audio files	yes
✅	Million Musical Tweets	listening behavior	1086808 tweets	no
✅	Modal	onset times	71 snippets	yes
✅	MOODetector:Bi-Modal	lyrics, valence & arousal	133 excerpts	yes
✅	MOODetector:Multi-Modal	lyrics, MIDI, mood	903 excerpts (30s)	yes
☠	moodswings	arousal & valence	240 excerpts (30s)	no
✅	Mozart’s String Quartets	sonata from structure, cadences	32 movements	no
☠	Million Song Dataset	metadata, proprietary features	1000000 songs	no
✅	Multimodal Sheet Music Dataset	piano notes/chords/pieces, synthetic audio, aligned MIDI, aligned sheet music images, OMR	497 pieces	no
✅	The Meertens Tune Collections	phrases, key, meter	18000 melodies	partially
✅	A Multimodal Dataset of Musical Themes for MIR Research	sheet music, symbolic encodings, audio snippets, symbolic-audio alignments, composer, work, recording, and theme characteristics	2067 Themes	yes
✅	MTG-Jamendo	tags (genre, instruments, mood)	55000 tracks	yes
✅	MTG-Query by Humming	title, artist	118 queries/481 songs	yes/no
✅	MUSDB18	multitrack recordings, stems for vocals, drums, bass and accompaniment	150 songs	yes
✅	MUSIC4ALL	tags, lyrics	109,269 excerpts (30s)	on request
✅	musiclef2012	tags	1355 songs	no
✅	MusicMicro	music listening patterns	136866 users	no
✅	MusicNet	pitch, onsets	330 recordings	implicitly
✅	NES-MDB	multi-track MIDI, aligned audio	5000 songs	on request
☠	Nine Inch Nails Multitracks	multitrack	66 songs	yes
✅	NMED-H - Naturalistic Music EEG Dataset Hindi	EEG	24 trials x 16 excerpts (4.5min)	no
✅	Naturalistic Music EEG Dataset – Rhythm Pilot	EEG	20 trials x 10 excerpts (4.5min)	no
✅	Naturalistic Music EEG Dataset - Tempo	EEG	30 trials x 16 excerpts (30sec)	no
✅	NSynth	instrument, pitch	305979 single notes	yes
☠	NUS-48E	aligned phonemes	48 pairs of sung and spoken	yes
✅	ODB	onset times	19 excerpts	yes
☠	Onset_Leveau	onset times	21 excerpts	yes
✅	Open Broadcast Media Audio from TV	6 classes for music presence	1647 excerpts (60s)	yes
✅	OpenMIC-2018	20 instruments	20000 excerpts (10s)	yes
✅	Orchset	predominant pitch	64 excerpts	yes
✅	Piano Gestures Dataset	video, intentions, audio	210 clips	yes
✅	Phenicx-Anechoic	audio, aligned MIDI	4 pieces	yes
✅	Phonation	pitch, vowel, phonation mode	900 monophonic snippets	yes
✅	PlaylistDataset	playlists	75262 songs/2840553 transitions	no
✅	QBT-Extended	taps	3365 queries/51 songs	MIDI
✅	QMUL:Beatles	structure, key, chords, beats	181 songs	no
✅	QMUL:King	structure, key, chords	14 songs	no
✅	QMUL:MichaelJackson	structure	38 songs	no
✅	QMUL:MixEvaluation	multitrack, mixes	18 songs/180 mixes	yes
✅	QMUL:Queen	structure, key, chords	51/31 songs	no
✅	QMUL:RSS	structure	60 songs	no
✅	QMUL:Zweieck	structure, key, chords, beats	18 songs	no
☠	QUASI	multitrack	11 songs	yes
✅	RobbieWilliamsAnnotations	chords, keys, beats	65 songs	no
✅	RockCorpus	chords, melody, bars	200 songs	no
✅	RWC	lyrics, 10 genre, 50 instruments, chords, structure, aligned MIDI	115 songs/50 classical/100 songs	yes
✅	SALAMI	structure	1447 songs	no
✅	SAMBASET	recording date, escolas, beats	392	no
✅	Sargon	structure	4 songs	yes
✅	Semantic Artist Similarity	artist biographies, similarity	268+2336 artists	no
✅	Schenker Anayses	MusicXML, Schenker analysis	41 pieces	no
✅	SCP - EEG-Recorded Responses to Short Chord Progressions	EEG	108/648 trials x 12 stimuli (5s)	yes
✅	Sample detection dataset	start of samples	80 songs, 80 samples	no
✅	SEILS	scores in different symbolic formats	30 madrigals	no
☠	Seyerlehner:1517-Artists	19 genres	3180 songs	yes
☠	Seyerlehner:Annotated	19 genres	190 songs	yes
☠	Seyerlehner:Pop	tempo	1105 songs	yes
☠	Seyerlehner:Unique	14 genres	3115 excerpts (30s)	yes
✅	SHS100K	cover songs	ca. 10,000 songs with 100,000 tracks	no
✅	SISEC2013	multitrack, mix	5 excerpts	yes
✅	SLAKH	MIDI, synthesized audio (tracks + mix)	2100 mixes	yes
✅	SMC:MIREX	tempo, beats	217 excerpts	yes
✅	SMD	audio, aligned MIDI	50 recordings	yes
✅	SoundTracks	valence, energy, tension, mood	360+110 excerpts	yes
✅	SPAM	structure	50 songs	no
✅	Shazam Research Dataset Offsets	in-song query times	188M queries over 20 songs	no
✅	Su-AMT	onset times, pitch	10 excerpts	yes
✅	SUPRA-RW	piano roll performances	478 performances	yes
✅	Schubert Winterreise Dataset (SWD)	lyrics, scores (image, symbolic, MIDI), audio, measures, chords, local keys, global keys, structure	24 songs, 9 performances	yes
✅	Texture in String Quartets	texture	11 movements	no
✅	Traditional Flute Dataset	audio, aligned MIDI	30 excerpts	yes
✅	ThisIsMyJam	favorite songs, artists	131k users	no
✅	TinySOL, an audio dataset of isolated musical notes	instrument, pitch, dynamics, string number (if applicable)	2913 isolated notes	yes
✅	TONAS	pitch	72 single-voiced excerpts	yes
✅	Track Popularity	popularity rating	23385 songs	no
✅	Tunebot	title, artist	10000 queries/? songs	yes/no
✅	UIOWA:MIS	single instrument notes	many	yes
✅	UMA-Piano	piano chords	275040 recordings	yes
✅	UnmixDB	DJ mix parameters	37 playlists	yes
✅	URBAN-SED	9 event classes	10000 recordings	yes
✅	UrbanSound8k	10 event classes	8732 slices	yes
✅	Multi-modal Music Performance	score-aligned video and audio	44 recordings	yes
☠	uspop2002	tags, genre, chords	8752 songs	no
✅	Violin Gestures Dataset	EMG, playing techniques, audio	960 recordings	yes
✅	VocalSet	17 vocal techniques	3560 recordings	yes
✅	YousicianUkulele	evaluated notes and chords	500000 exercises by 1000 users	no