arXiv:2608. 06165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing audio-to-score (A2S) systems primarily focus on classical music, and the application to popular music remains underexplored.
By Eoin Cummins, Zhongyi Huang, Alexandre D'Hooge, Zhuoro Mo, Yaolong Ju
arXiv:2609.39552v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Text-to-song generation models can be prompted to imitate specific artists or regurgitate entire songs from their training data. Although these pheno...
By Arhan Vohra, Choenden Kyirong, Laura Ib\'a\~nez-Mart\'inez, Mart\'in Rocamora
arXiv:2601.11262v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Music Cover Retrieval, also known as Version Identification, aims to recognize distinct renditions of the same underlying musical work, a tas...
By Joanne Affolter, Benjamin Martin, Elena V. Epure, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Fr\'ed\'eric Kaplan
Project Qualia investigates whether experiential similarity between songs can be extracted from listening behavior. Using 1.29 billion scrobbles from 9,396 users, the authors trained a Word2Vec model (Song2Vec) on session data, then applied an artist‑residual procedure to isolate artist‑independent signals. The residual embeddings still contained strong cross‑artist similarity, forming coherent genre and era clusters, demonstrating that experiential structure exists beyond artist identity.
By Nizam Mohammed, Abu B. S. Rahman, Dimuthu D. K. Arachchige
Chordonomicon is a new dataset of over 666,000 song-level symbolic chord progressions, each annotated with structural parts such as verse, chorus, and bridge, as well as genre and release date. The dataset was compiled by scraping user-generated progressions from multiple sources and shows strong similarity to established prior datasets. The authors also provide a reproducible benchmark suite for next chord prediction, evaluating RNN, GRU, and LSTM models across various context windows and data scales, and find that structural part annotations consistently improve prediction performance.
By Spyridon Kantarelis, Ioannis Liolitsas, Konstantinos Thomas, Vassilis Lyberatos, Edmund Dervakos, Giorgos Stamou
arXiv:2605. 03395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Music popularity prediction has attracted growing research interest, with relevance to artists, platforms, and recommendation systems.
By Jaavid Aktar Husain, Dorien Herremans
arXiv:2607. 00777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing jazz standards from audio is a challenging form of tune-level music retrieval: different performances of the same standard may vary in tempo, key, arrangement, instrumentation, improvisational content, and even whether the head melody is present.
By \c{C}a\u{g}r{\i} Eser
Generalizable Audio-to-Score (A2S) transcription is fundamentally constrained by the severe scarcity of high-quality, real-world paired data. Relying solely on existing human-annotated datasets often...
arXiv:2606. 02638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in neural song generation have enabled high-quality synthesis from lyrics and global textual prompts.
By Yuejiao Wang, Zihao Ji, Pengfei Cai, Xu Li, Haorui Zheng, Zewen Song, Zhongliang Liu, Chen Zhang, Pengfei Wan
TUTTI is a new pre‑training framework for audio‑to‑score transcription that uses a large, fully synthetic multi‑instrument dataset generated by a symbolic music model. The approach trains a standard Transformer encoder‑decoder on these synthetic audio‑score pairs, producing a stronger foundational representation than single‑instrument training. When fine‑tuned on real datasets, TUTTI surpasses prior methods, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results and demonstrating strong cross‑instrument transferability.
By Jianhuai Hu, Yashan Wang, Shangda Wu, Zhancheng Guo, Shijie Liang, Wuna Meng, Chuanqi Yang, Xiaobing Li, Feng Yu, Maosong Sun
DuoTok is a source‑aware dual‑track music tokenizer designed for vocal‑accompaniment generation. It first learns a semantic audio representation via self‑supervised pretraining, then refines source‑aware structure with feature‑replacement noise and multi‑task supervision (spectral reconstruction, source separation regularization, and an ASR head for lyric alignment). The encoder is frozen and hard‑routed codebooks for vocals and accompaniment are learned, while a diffusion decoder restores fine acoustic detail from the discrete tokens, achieving a favorable predictability‑fidelity trade‑off at ultra‑low bitrate across public benchmarks.
By Rui Lin, Zhiyue Wu, Jiahe Lei, Kangdi Wang, Weixiong Chen, Junyu Dai, Tao Jiang
arXiv:2607. 08756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MulTTiPop, a dataset of pop music segments and their associated multitrack MIDI recordings for the evaluation of automatic music transcription models.
By Nathan Pruyne, Benjamin Stoler, William Chen, Chien-yu Huang, Shinji Watanabe, Chris Donahue