MusicCaps Dataset by Google AI
Features
- Open dataset of 5,521 music clips with captions written by professional musicians
- Multi-sentence English descriptions of acoustic traits, textures and moods
- Keyword aspect tags for each clip for machine-readable training
- 10-second segments drawn from the AudioSet evaluation and training splits
- Metadata index with YouTube IDs and start and end timestamps instead of audio files
- CSV format that loads into libraries like Hugging Face Datasets
- Available on Kaggle and Hugging Face under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
Pricing Details
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