THE FREESOUND LOOP DATASET AND ANNOTATION TOOL António Ramires1 Frederic Font1 Dmitry Bogdanov1 Jordan B. L. Smith2 Yi-Hsuan Yang3 Joann Ching3 Bo-Yu Chen3 Yueh-Kao Wu3 Hsu Wei-Han3 Xavier Serra1 1 Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 2 TikTok, Lodon, United Kingdom 3 Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
[email protected] ABSTRACT tronic music. Currently, large-scale databases of audio of- fer huge collections of audio material for users to work Music loops are essential ingredients in electronic mu- with. Some databases, like Freesound 1 and Looperman 2 , sic production, and there is a high demand for pre-recorded are community-oriented: people upload their sounds so loops in a variety of styles. Several commercial and com- that other users can employ them in their works. More munity databases have been created to meet this demand, commonly, these collections are commercially oriented: but most are not suitable for research due to their strict li- loops are available to paying costumers, either through a censing. We present the Freesound Loop Dataset (FSLD), subscription service (e.g. Sounds.com, 3 Splice 4 ) or by a new large-scale dataset of music loops annotated by ex- allowing customers to buy packs of loops (e.g. Loopmas- perts. The loops originate from Freesound, a community ters, 5 and Prime Loops 6 ). database of audio recordings released under Creative Com- Despite the number of loops available on these mons licenses, so the audio in our dataset may be redis- databases, the technologies used to analyse and navigate tributed.