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Music Informatics Softwares and Datasets

  • Janas – A text-based Music Search Engine
  • BIO – Bowed Instruments Ontology
  • UltimateGuitar chord sequence dataset contains all the chord annotations of the website ultimateguitar.com. Overall, it involves 26545277 chord occurrences stemming from 412924 annotations, referring to approximately 328k songs by 40k authors.
    If you use the dataset in your study, please cite the following paper:
    Bruno Di Giorgi, Simon Dixon, Massimiliano Zanoni, Augusto Sarti, A data-driven model of tonal chord sequence complexity, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2017
  • Chord, Key and Beat Annotations contains community-reviewed annotations of chords, keys and beats for five albums by Robbie Williams. If you use the chords or keys annotations in your study, please cite the following paper:
    Bruno di Giorgi, Massimiliano Zanoni, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro, Automatic chord recognition based on the probabilistic modeling of diatonic modal harmony, in Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on multidimensional (nD) systems – nDS13 – November 9 – September 11, 2013, Erlangen, Germany (bib).
    If you use the beats annotations in your study, please cite the following paper:
    Bruno Di Giorgi, Massimiliano Zanoni, Sebastian Böck, Augusto Sarti, Multipath Beat Tracking, in Special Issue on Intelligent Audio Processing, Semantics, and Interaction, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol.64, no.7/8, pp.493-502, 2016 (bib).