MIREX 2025 Music Description and Captioning
dataset·music description captioning·superseded
A MIREX task evaluating systems that generate natural-language descriptions for music audio.
Recorded facts
| Official site | https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2025:Music_Description_and_Captioning ↗ |
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| Geography | United States |
| size | source captions: 1106 · source recordings: 706 · validated captions: 746 · validated recordings: 547 |
| scope | Automatic music description and caption generation evaluated on Song Describer. |
| genres | multiple Creative Commons music genres |
| license | source-dataset and MIREX terms |
| steward | MIREX / International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory |
| creators | MIREX task organizers |
| languages | English captions |
| modalities | music audio; reference captions; system-generated captions; evaluation metrics |
| geographies | Global |
| access method | Historical MIREX task page and submission framework. |
| intended uses | music captioning evaluation |
| consent claims | Inherited from Song Describer and its audio sources. |
| annotation method | System captions are compared with human descriptions using task metrics. |
| collection method | Task uses the Song Describer Dataset and its validated subset. |
| provenance claims | Official task page specifies source and validated-set counts. |
| current availability | 2025 task documentation available. |
| commercial use limits | Depends on Song Describer source tracks. |
| us market scope basis | Publicly available or materially used in US-facing music/audio-AI research. |
| limitations biases disputes | Reference-caption metrics may not capture all valid musical descriptions. |
| redistribution restrictions | Audio and captions follow source terms. |
Current
| uses dataset | Song Describer DatasetSource 1 ↗ VERIFIED high confidence |
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Sources & changes
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Field-level evidence
Public change history
- Status unknown → superseded
- Official URL unknown → www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2025:Music_Description_and_Captioning
- Record maintenance · 12 fields updated
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