Release of MedleyDB - a dataset of multitrack audio (Rachel Bittner )


Subject: Release of MedleyDB - a dataset of multitrack audio
From:    Rachel Bittner  <rachel.bittner@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:56:40 +0200
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--001a11c11c20c678d70506042764 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ** Apologies for any cross-posting ** Dear list, We are pleased to announce the first release of MedleyDB <http://medleydb.weebly.com/>, a dataset of multitrack audio with melody annotations and instrument activation annotations: http://medleydb.weebly.com/ MedleyDB contains 122 multitracks (mix + stems + raw audio) from diverse genres. It is released to the research community under a Non-commercial Creative Commons license. The dataset was curated to facilitate research in topics such as melody extraction, instrument recognition, source separation and automatic mixing, among others. For more information, please visit MedleyDB=E2=80=99s companion website <http://medleydb.weebly.com/>. MedleyDB will be presented at ISMIR <http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/> next week. For those interested, please see our paper: R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, M. Tierney, M. Mauch, C. Cannam and J. P. Bello. "MedleyDB: A Multitrack Dataset for Annotation-Intensive MIR Research <http://marl.smusic.nyu.edu/medleydb_webfiles/bittner_medleydb_ismir2014.pd= f>", in Proc. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2014. We hope you find the dataset useful for your work and look forward to seeing some of you at ISMIR. Best, Rachel, Justin, Mike, Matthias, Chris and Juan. --001a11c11c20c678d70506042764 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><span id=3D"docs-internal-guid-9498c8e5-3859-cf7e-5fad-49c= 38b22903c"><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-b= ottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:b= aseline;white-space:pre-wrap">** Apologies for any cross-posting **</span><= /p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-botto= m:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:basel= ine;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear list,</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"= line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size= :13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We ar= e pleased to announce the first release of </span><a href=3D"http://medleyd= b.weebly.com/" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:13px= ;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-= space:pre-wrap">MedleyDB</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-famil= y:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a dataset of multit= rack audio with melody annotations and instrument activation annotations: <= /span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margi= n-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-alig= n:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href=3D"http://medleydb.weebly.com/">ht= tp://medleydb.weebly.com/</a></span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-he= ight:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;f= ont-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MedleyDB con= tains 122 multitracks (mix + stems + raw audio) from diverse genres. It is = released to the research community under a Non-commercial Creative Commons = license. The dataset was curated to facilitate research in topics such as m= elody extraction, instrument recognition, source separation and automatic m= ixing, among others. For more information, please visit </span><a href=3D"h= ttp://medleydb.weebly.com/" style=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"f= ont-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:ba= seline;white-space:pre-wrap">MedleyDB=E2=80=99s companion website</span></a= ><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;wh= ite-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.1= 5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-fami= ly:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MedleyDB will be pre= sented at </span><a href=3D"http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/" sty= le=3D"text-decoration:none"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial= ;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IS= MIR</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-alig= n:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> next week. For those interested, please s= ee our paper:</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin= -top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial= ;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-c= olor:transparent">R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, M. Tierney, M. Mauch, C. Canna= m and J. P. Bello. &quot;</span><a href=3D"http://marl.smusic.nyu.edu/medle= ydb_webfiles/bittner_medleydb_ismir2014.pdf" style=3D"text-decoration:none"= ><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;= vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">= MedleyDB: A Multitrack Dataset for Annotation-Intensive MIR Research</span>= </a><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertic= al-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">&quot;= , in Proc. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Confe= rence (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2014.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"l= tr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style= =3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pr= e-wrap">We hope you find the dataset useful for your work and look forward = to seeing some of you at ISMIR.</span></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-= height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px= ;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</spa= n></p><br><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bo= ttom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:ba= seline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rachel, Justin, Mike, Matthias, Chris and Juan= .</span></p><div><span style=3D"font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-a= lign:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div> --001a11c11c20c678d70506042764--


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