MIREX 2025 Music Description and Captioning

dataset·music description captioning·superseded

A MIREX task evaluating systems that generate natural-language descriptions for music audio.

Verified facts

Official site	https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2025:Music_Description_and_Captioning ↗
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.