MDB-stem-synth

MDB-stem-synth
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MDB-stem-synth (c) by Justin Salamon, Rachel Bittner, Jordi Bonada, Juan Jose Bosch, Emilia Gómez and Juan Pablo Bello.
MDB-stem-synth is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). 
You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Created By
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Justin Salamon*, Rachel Bittner*, Jordi Bonada^, Juan Jose Bosch^, Emilia Gómez^ and Juan Pablo Bello*.
* Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL), New York University, USA
^ Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
http://synthdatasets.weebly.com/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl/
https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg

Version 1.0.0

Description
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MDB-stem-synth contains 230 solo stems (tracks) from the MedleyDB dataset (http://medleydb.weebly.com/) spanning a 
variety of musical instruments and voices, which have been resynthesized to obtain a perfect f0 annotation using the 
analysis/synthesis method described in the following publication:

J. Salamon, R. M. Bittner, J. Bonada, J. J. Bosch, E. Gómez, and J. P. Bello. "An analysis/synthesis framework for 
automatic f0 annotation of multitrack datasets". In 18th Int. Soc. for Music Info. Retrieval Conf., Suzhou, China, 
Oct. 2017.

This dataset includes:
* 230 mono wav files containing the resynthesized solo stem (track) from a variety of instruments and voices
* 230 csv files containing a perfect f0 annotation of the stem (track) obtained via the analysis/synthesis method 
  described in the paper

The data come in two folders, the contents of which is described below.

audio_stems
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Contains 230 mono wav files of the resynthesized solo stems (tracks), spanning a variety of musical instruments and 
voices. The resynthesized stems are obtained via the analysis/synthesis method described in the paper.

Naming convention: 
<artist>_<songtitle>_STEM_<stemID>.RESYN.wav

Example: 
AClassicEducation_NightOwl_STEM_01.RESYN.wav

annotation_stems
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Contains 230 csv files containing a perfect f0 annotation of the stems (tracks) obtained via the analysis/synthesis 
method described in the paper. 

Format:
Each file contains two comma-separated columns, the first containing timestamps and the second containing the stem 
f0 in Hz. The first frame in the annotation is zero-centered. Silence is indicated as 0 Hz. The hop size of the 
annotation is 128/44100 seconds (~2.9 ms).

Naming convention:
<artist>_<songtitle>_STEM_<stemID>.RESYN.csv

Example:
AClassicEducation_NightOwl_STEM_01.RESYN.csv

Please Acknowledge MDB-stem-synth in Academic Research
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Please cite the following publication when using MDB-stem-synth:

J. Salamon, R. M. Bittner, J. Bonada, J. J. Bosch, E. Gómez, and J. P. Bello. "An analysis/synthesis framework for 
automatic f0 annotation of multitrack datasets". In 18th Int. Soc. for Music Info. Retrieval Conf., Suzhou, China, 
Oct. 2017.

For information about the original MedleyDB dataset please see (and cite):

R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, M. Tierney, M. Mauch, C. Cannam, and J. P. Bello. MedleyDB: A multitrack dataset for 
annotation-intensive MIR research. In 15th Int. Soc. for Music Info. Retrieval Conf., pages 155–160, Taipei, Taiwan, 
Oct. 2014.

Conditions of Use
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Dataset created by Justin Salamon, Rachel Bittner, Jordi Bonada, Juan Jose Bosch, Emilia Gómez and Juan Pablo Bello. 
 
The MDB-stem-synth dataset is offered free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
 
The dataset and its contents are made available on an "as is" basis and without warranties of any kind, including 
without limitation satisfactory quality and conformity, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or 
completeness, or absence of errors. Subject to any liability that may not be excluded or limited by law, NYU is not 
liable for, and expressly excludes, all liability for loss or damage however and whenever caused to anyone by any use of 
the MDB-stem-synth dataset or any part of it.

Feedback
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Please help us improve MDB-stem-synth by sending your feedback to: justin.salamon@gmail.com
In case of a problem report please include as many details as possible.