MusicCaps (text-music captions dataset)
Source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/google/MusicCaps
Structured fields
{
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "5,521 ten-second AudioSet music clips with English aspect lists and free-text captions written by musicians, introduced with MusicLM; distributed as YouTube IDs and timestamps only (no audio), under CC-BY-SA 4.0.",
"source_type": "dataset",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "google (Hugging Face organisation)",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
"known_limitations": [
"Audio must be fetched from YouTube; availability decays as videos disappear."
]
}Evidence claims
- [upstream_claim] Dataset card: 5,521 music examples, each a 10-second AudioSet clip (2,858 eval split, 2,663 train split) with an English aspect list and a free-text caption written by musicians describing how the music sounds. · locator: dataset card, summary and structure source
- [sourced_fact] Distribution is a CSV of YouTube video IDs and start/end timestamps; users must download and cut clips themselves; the card does not host the audio. · locator: dataset card, data fields source
- [sourced_fact] Card states 'The license for this dataset is cc-by-sa-4.0'; cites MusicLM (arXiv 2301.11325); supported-tasks and social-impact sections marked More Information Needed. · locator: dataset card, license and citation source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dataset | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | permitted | restricted | permitted | unknown | CC-BY-SA 4.0 covers the annotations; the underlying YouTube audio is not licensed or hosted by the dataset, so rights in the audio are separate and unknown. |