MUSIC21 (audio dump)

Audio tracks downloaded from YouTube according to the official MUSIC21 video-id list released by Zhao et al. (The Sound of Pixels, ECCV 2018, and follow-up MUSIC-21).

• Source list : https://github.com/roudimit/MUSIC_dataset
• Tooling : yt-dlp 2026.03.17 + yt-dlp-ejs + deno (n-challenge solver)
• Date crawled : 2026-05-22

Statistics

Field	Value
Original IDs in id.txt	934
Successfully downloaded	927
Unavailable on YouTube	7 (private / removed / region-blocked)
Total size	~4.1 GB
Format	mp3, best available bitrate
Packaging	a single uncompressed tar

Files

MUSIC21_audio.tar     # 927 .mp3 files inside, paths "audio/<youtube_id>.mp3"
id.txt                # original 934 youtube ids (one per line)
unavailable.txt       # 7 ids that could not be retrieved + reasons

Quick start

import tarfile
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

tar_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="FYQ12138/MUSIC21",
    filename="MUSIC21_audio.tar",
    repo_type="dataset",
)
with tarfile.open(tar_path) as tf:
    tf.extractall("./MUSIC21")

License & disclaimer

Audio is downloaded from YouTube; the underlying copyright belongs to the respective uploaders. This dump is released for non-commercial research only in line with the original MUSIC / MUSIC21 dataset usage convention. If you are the rights holder of any clip and want it removed, please open an issue on this repo.

Citation

@inproceedings{zhao2018sound,
  title  = {The Sound of Pixels},
  author = {Zhao, Hang and Gan, Chuang and Rouditchenko, Andrew and Vondrick, Carl and McDermott, Josh and Torralba, Antonio},
  booktitle = {ECCV},
  year   = {2018}
}