Freesound Loop Dataset

The dataset is available for download from zenodo.

🎧 License

This audio sample is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

✅ You May:

Use, remix, and share the sample.
Include it in non-commercial projects (e.g. personal tracks, educational content).

❌ You May Not:

Use it in any commercial work (e.g. monetized videos, streaming platforms, games, ads, sample packs).
Sell or license derivative works containing the sample.

📝 Attribution Required:

Credit the original creator when using the sample.

To cite this work, please use the following BibTeX entries:

@inproceedings{ramires2020, 
    author = "Antonio Ramires and Frederic Font and Dmitry Bogdanov and Jordan B. L. Smith and Yi-Hsuan Yang and Joann Ching and Bo-Yu Chen and Yueh-Kao Wu and Hsu Wei-Han and Xavier Serra", 
    title = "The Freesound Loop Dataset and Annotation Tool", 
    booktitle = "Proc. of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)", 
    year = "2020" }

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Curation Process

To collect this dataset, the following steps were performed:

Freesound was queried with “loop” and “bpm”, so as to collect loops which have a beats-per-minute(BPM) annotations.

The sounds were analysed with AudioCommons extractor, so as to obtain key information.

The textual metadata of each sound was analysed, to obtain the BPM proposed by the user, and to obtain genre information.

Annotators used a web interface to annotate around 3,000 loops.