An open dataset for research on audio field recording archives: freefield1010

2013/09/20 by Dan Stowell, Mark D. Plumbley, Stowell, Dan +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Video Analysis and Summarization

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.5275

openalex publication_date 2013/09/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We introduce a free and open dataset of 7690 audio clips sampled from the field-recording tag in the Freesound audio archive. The dataset is designed for use in research related to data mining in audio archives of field recordings / soundscapes. Audio is standardised, and audio and metadata are Creative Commons licensed. We describe the data preparation process, characterise the dataset descriptively, and illustrate its use through an auto-tagging experiment.

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