Benchmarking Music Autotagging with MGPHot Expert Annotations vs. Generic Tag Datasets
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| author | Ramoneda, Pedro Alonso-Jiménez, Pablo Oramas, Sergio Serra, Xavier Bogdanov, Dmitry |
| author_facet | Ramoneda, Pedro Alonso-Jiménez, Pablo Oramas, Sergio Serra, Xavier Bogdanov, Dmitry |
| contents | Music autotagging aims to automatically assign descriptive tags, such as genre, mood, or instrumentation, to audio recordings. Due to its challenges, diversity of semantic descriptions, and practical value in various applications, it has become a common downstream task for evaluating the performance of general-purpose music representations learned from audio data. We introduce a new benchmarking dataset based on the recently published MGPHot dataset, which includes expert musicological annotations, allowing for additional insights and comparisons with results obtained on common generic tag datasets. While MGPHot annotations have been shown to be useful for computational musicology, the original dataset neither includes audio nor provides evaluation setups for its use as a standardized autotagging benchmark. To address this, we provide a curated set of YouTube URLs with retrievable audio, and propose a train/val/test split for standardized evaluation, and precomputed representations for seven state-of-the-art models. Using these resources, we evaluated these models in MGPHot and standard reference tag datasets, highlighting key differences between expert and generic tag annotations. Altogether, our contributions provide a more advanced benchmarking framework for future research in music understanding. |
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| spellingShingle | Benchmarking Music Autotagging with MGPHot Expert Annotations vs. Generic Tag Datasets Ramoneda, Pedro Alonso-Jiménez, Pablo Oramas, Sergio Serra, Xavier Bogdanov, Dmitry Sound Audio and Speech Processing Music autotagging aims to automatically assign descriptive tags, such as genre, mood, or instrumentation, to audio recordings. Due to its challenges, diversity of semantic descriptions, and practical value in various applications, it has become a common downstream task for evaluating the performance of general-purpose music representations learned from audio data. We introduce a new benchmarking dataset based on the recently published MGPHot dataset, which includes expert musicological annotations, allowing for additional insights and comparisons with results obtained on common generic tag datasets. While MGPHot annotations have been shown to be useful for computational musicology, the original dataset neither includes audio nor provides evaluation setups for its use as a standardized autotagging benchmark. To address this, we provide a curated set of YouTube URLs with retrievable audio, and propose a train/val/test split for standardized evaluation, and precomputed representations for seven state-of-the-art models. Using these resources, we evaluated these models in MGPHot and standard reference tag datasets, highlighting key differences between expert and generic tag annotations. Altogether, our contributions provide a more advanced benchmarking framework for future research in music understanding. |
| title | Benchmarking Music Autotagging with MGPHot Expert Annotations vs. Generic Tag Datasets |
| topic | Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06936 |