MuseCPBench: an Empirical Study of Music Editing Methods through Music Context Preservation

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Main Authors: Vishe, Yash, Xue, Eric, Jiang, Xunyi, Novack, Zachary, Wu, Junda, McAuley, Julian, Xu, Xin
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Published: 2025
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author Vishe, Yash
Xue, Eric
Jiang, Xunyi
Novack, Zachary
Wu, Junda
McAuley, Julian
Xu, Xin
author_facet Vishe, Yash
Xue, Eric
Jiang, Xunyi
Novack, Zachary
Wu, Junda
McAuley, Julian
Xu, Xin
contents Music editing plays a vital role in modern music production, with applications in film, broadcasting, and game development. Recent advances in music generation models have enabled diverse editing tasks such as timbre transfer, instrument substitution, and genre transformation. However, many existing works overlook the evaluation of their ability to preserve musical facets that should remain unchanged during editing a property we define as Music Context Preservation (MCP). While some studies do consider MCP, they adopt inconsistent evaluation protocols and metrics, leading to unreliable and unfair comparisons. To address this gap, we introduce the first MCP evaluation benchmark, MuseCPBench, which covers four categories of musical facets and enables comprehensive comparisons across five representative music editing baselines. Through systematic analysis along musical facets, methods, and models, we identify consistent preservation gaps in current music editing methods and provide insightful explanations. We hope our findings offer practical guidance for developing more effective and reliable music editing strategies with strong MCP capability
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spellingShingle MuseCPBench: an Empirical Study of Music Editing Methods through Music Context Preservation
Vishe, Yash
Xue, Eric
Jiang, Xunyi
Novack, Zachary
Wu, Junda
McAuley, Julian
Xu, Xin
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Music editing plays a vital role in modern music production, with applications in film, broadcasting, and game development. Recent advances in music generation models have enabled diverse editing tasks such as timbre transfer, instrument substitution, and genre transformation. However, many existing works overlook the evaluation of their ability to preserve musical facets that should remain unchanged during editing a property we define as Music Context Preservation (MCP). While some studies do consider MCP, they adopt inconsistent evaluation protocols and metrics, leading to unreliable and unfair comparisons. To address this gap, we introduce the first MCP evaluation benchmark, MuseCPBench, which covers four categories of musical facets and enables comprehensive comparisons across five representative music editing baselines. Through systematic analysis along musical facets, methods, and models, we identify consistent preservation gaps in current music editing methods and provide insightful explanations. We hope our findings offer practical guidance for developing more effective and reliable music editing strategies with strong MCP capability
title MuseCPBench: an Empirical Study of Music Editing Methods through Music Context Preservation
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14629