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Aria-MIDI: A Dataset of Piano MIDI Files for Symbolic Music Modeling

arXiv 2504.15071 ↗First posted 21 Apr 2025cs.SD cs.AI cs.LGcited by 10

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Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce an extensive new dataset of MIDI files, created by transcribing audio recordings of piano performances into their constituent notes. The data pipeline we use is multi-stage, employing a language model to autonomously crawl and score audio recordings from the internet based on their metadata, followed by a stage of pruning and segmentation using an audio classifier. The resulting dataset contains over one million distinct MIDI files, comprising roughly 100,000 hours of transcribed audio. We provide an in-depth analysis of our techniques, offering statistical insights, and investigate the content by extracting metadata tags, which we also provide. Dataset available at https://github.com/loubbrad/aria-midi.

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 7; 2026: 3.

10 papers.

  1. 2025Scaling Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Symbolic Piano Performancecited by 7
  2. 2025Towards an AI Musician: Synthesizing Sheet Music Problems for Musical Reasoningcited by 6
  3. 2025Moonbeam: A MIDI Foundation Model Using Both Absolute and Relative Music Attributescited by 4
  4. 2025Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Trainingcited by 2
  5. 2026PianoCoRe: Combined and Refined Piano MIDI Datasetcited by 1
  6. 2026Structural priors for data-efficient language learningcited by 1
  7. 2025Amadeus: Autoregressive Model with Bidirectional Attribute Modelling for Symbolic Musiccited by 0
  8. 2025A Traditional Approach to Symbolic Piano Continuationcited by 0
  9. 2025The Ghost in the Keys: A Disklavier Demo for Human-AI Musical Co-Creativitycited by 0
  10. 2026Integrating Contextual Embeddings into Evaluation of Expressive MIDI Piano Performancescited by 0