Music Arena

dataset·live text to music preference·active

A live pairwise evaluation platform and rolling leaderboard for text-to-music generation systems.

Recorded facts

Official site	https://music-arena.org/ ↗
Geography	United States
arxiv	2507.20900
size	rolling
scope	Anonymous pairwise comparison of text-to-music outputs from current models.
genres	open-ended
license	service and model-output specific
steward	Music Arena collaboration
creators	Yonghyun Kim; Wayne Chi; Anastasios N. Angelopoulos; Chris Donahue
languages	user-provided multilingual prompts
modalities	text prompts; paired generated audio; human votes; rolling leaderboard
geographies	Global
access method	Public live website; research dataset released separately.
intended uses	text-to-music model evaluation; preference collection
consent claims	Project states CMU IRB approval under STUDY2024_00000489.
related papers	Music Arena: Live Evaluation for Text-to-Music
prohibited uses	Use of participant data or model audio outside published terms.
annotation method	Pairwise preferences, listening behavior and optional feedback are aggregated into rankings.
collection method	Users prompt two anonymized systems, listen and vote.
provenance claims	Official project documents model providers and public data-release exclusions.
current availability	Live platform available at snapshot date.
commercial use limits	Generated-audio rights depend on participating provider terms.
us market scope basis	Publicly available or materially used in US-facing music/audio-AI research.