cs.SDSep 15, 2026

The Internet Archive Music Dataset

Authors: Paraskevas Stamatiadis, Bernardo V Miranda, Clémentine Berger, Gaël Richard, Mathieu Fontaine, Slim Essid

Organizations: S2A, LTCI, IDS · LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France · LTCI, IP Paris, S2A, IDS, IMT · IDS, S2A, LTCI

Abstract

We introduce the Internet Archive Music Dataset (IAMD), a large-scale collection of captioned music segments derived from the Internet Archive. To the best of our knowledge, IAMD constitutes the largest publicly available music-caption dataset to date with over 34,000 hours of audio, providing a valuable benchmark for training and evaluating music understanding and generative models. The dataset is built from content declared to be distributed under Creative Commons licenses, and cross-referencing with MusicBrainz is done to improve license information reliability. To annotate IAMD, we present an automatic captioning pipeline that augments base captions produced by an audio-language model (ALM) with textual metadata sourced from the Internet Archive and imputed metadata obtained using audio classification models. Caption quality is assessed objectively and subjectively, and results indicate that the annotation pipeline is reliable and does not degrade caption quality with scaling.

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