“…Several recent works have emerged in this domain, proposing methods to automatically generate music descriptions [21,7,9], synthesise music from a text prompt [2,14,30,6], search for music based on language queries [8,22,13], and more [20,17]. However, evaluating M&L models remains a challenge due to a lack of public and accessible datasets with paired audio and language, resulting in the widespread use of private data [21,22,23,14,2,13] and inconsistent evaluation practices. To mitigate this, we release the Song Describer dataset (SDD), a new high-quality evaluation dataset of crowdsourced captions paired with openly licensed music recordings.…”