DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1481170
title: Mdb-Mf0-Synth

description: MDB-mf0-synth<br>
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MDB-mf0-synth (c) by Justin Salamon, Rachel Bittner, Jordi Bonada, Juan Jose Bosch, Emilia Gómez and Juan Pablo Bello.<br>
MDB-mf0-synth is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). <br>
You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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

Version 1.0.0

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Description<br>
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MDB-mf0-synth contains 85 songs from the MedleyDB dataset (http://medleydb.weebly.com/) in which polyphonic pitched <br>
instruments (such as piano and guitar) have been removed and all monophonic pitched instruments (such as bass and voice) <br>
have been resynthesized to obtain perfect f0 annotations using the analysis/synthesis method described in the following <br>
publication:

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

This dataset includes:<br>
* 85 stereo wav files of song mixes where:<br>
    * polyphonic pitched instruments (such as piano and guitar) have been removed<br>
    * all monophonic pitched instruments (such as bass and voice) have been resynthesized using the analysis/synthesis <br>
      method described in the paper<br>
* 85 csv files containing a perfect multiple-f0 annotation of all the (monophonic) pitched instruments in the mix, <br>
  obtained via the analysis/synthesis method described in the paper

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

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audio_mix<br>
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Contains 85 stereo wav files of song mixes in which polyphonic pitched instruments (such as piano and guitar) have been <br>
removed and all monophonic pitched instruments (such as bass and voice) have been resynthesized using the <br>
analysis/synthesis method described in the paper. Non-pitched tracks (percussion) are kept unchanged (i.e. the <br>
original stems are used). All the stems (tracks) are automatically mixed together as described in the paper.

Naming convention: <br>
&lt;artist&gt;_&lt;songtitle&gt;_MIX_mf0synth.wav

Example: <br>
AClassicEducation_NightOwl_MIX_mf0synth.wav

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annotation_mf0<br>
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Contains 85 csv files containing a perfect multiple-f0 annotation of all pitched stems (tracks) in the mix, obtained <br>
via the analysis/synthesis method described in the paper. 

Format:<br>
The annotations follow the MIREX multiple-f0 estimation (frame-basis) format:<br>
https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2018:Multiple_Fundamental_Frequency_Estimation_%26_Tracking#I.2FO_format<br>
This format is also support by mir_eval: https://github.com/craffel/mir_eval

Each row in the annotation starts with a timestamp, followed by 0 or more tab separated frequency values in Hz <br>
representing the f0 of each active pitched instrument present in the time frame represented by the row. The first <br>
frame in the annotation is zero-centered. The hop size of the annotation is exactly 10 ms. 

IMPORTANT: no assumptions can be made as to the ordering of the f0 values in each row. The frequency values are NOT <br>
ordered neither by instrument nor by frequency, and should thus be treated as a "bag of frequencies" (a set) without <br>
any assumptions as to which frequency belongs to which instrument.

Naming convention:<br>
&lt;artist&gt;_&lt;songtitle&gt;_MIX_mf0synth.csv

Example:<br>
AClassicEducation_NightOwl_MIX_mf0synth.csv

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Please Acknowledge MDB-mf0-synth in Academic Research<br>
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Please cite the following publication when using MDB-mf0-synth:

J. Salamon, R. M. Bittner, J. Bonada, J. J. Bosch, E. Gómez, and J. P. Bello. "An analysis/synthesis framework for <br>
automatic f0 annotation of multitrack datasets". In 18th Int. Soc. for Music Info. Retrieval Conf., Suzhou, China, <br>
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 <br>
annotation-intensive MIR research. In 15th Int. Soc. for Music Info. Retrieval Conf., pages 155–160, Taipei, Taiwan, <br>
Oct. 2014.

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Conditions of Use<br>
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Dataset created by Justin Salamon, Rachel Bittner, Jordi Bonada, Juan Jose Bosch, Emilia Gómez and Juan Pablo Bello. <br>
 <br>
The MDB-mf0-synth dataset is offered free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons<br>
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/<br>
 <br>
The dataset and its contents are made available on an "as is" basis and without warranties of any kind, including <br>
without limitation satisfactory quality and conformity, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or <br>
completeness, or absence of errors. Subject to any liability that may not be excluded or limited by law, NYU is not <br>
liable for, and expressly excludes, all liability for loss or damage however and whenever caused to anyone by any use of <br>
the MDB-mf0-synth dataset or any part of it.

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Feedback<br>
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Please help us improve MDB-mf0-synth by sending your feedback to: justin.salamon@gmail.com<br>
In case of a problem report please include as many details as possible.<br>
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