Song excerpts

A professional musician placed beat marks on several song excerpts. The ground-truth tempo was computed as the median of the inter-beat intervals.

• Total number of instances: 465
• Duration: ~20 s
• Total duration: ~9300 s
• Genres: see distribution in Table 2.

The data set, tempo annotations and outputs of all algorithms are available here.

NB: Slight changes in ground-truth annotations on November 16th 2004.

Table 2: Genre distribution of the song excerpts

Rock	68
Classical	70
Electronica	59
Latin	44
Samba	42
Jazz	12
AfroBeat	3
Flamenco	13
Balkan and Greek	144